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Robin Williams’ wife, children fight over his estate

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edged periodic struggles with substance abuse, and he had entered a substance abuse program shortly before his death. According to the coroner’s report, his wife told an investigator that Williams did not go there because of recent drug or alcohol abuse, but rather to reaffirm the principles of his rehabilitation.

Williams’ trust granted his children his memorabilia and awards in the entertainment industry and some other specific personal items, according to court documents. Susan Williams says that because he wanted her to continue to live at the

Tiburon home, it makes sense that he intended only for his children to have the specific personal items he delineated that were kept at another home he owned in Napa.

“Any other interpretation would lead to Mrs. Williams’ home being stripped while Mrs. Williams still lives there,” her attorneys wrote.

The children dispute that interpretation, saying there were no specific limits on the location of those items. The two sides also disagree over items put in storage, watches Williams owned and his memorabilia. (ap) In this Nov. 13, 2011 file photo, Susan Schneider, from left, Robin Williams, and Zelda Williams arrive at the premiere of “Happy Feet Two” at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, in Los Angeles.

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from the court about the meaning of certain terms in the trust.

“This is not ugly,” he said. “I would not say this is anticipated to be a highly contested proceeding.”

An attorney for the children, Allan Mayer, declined to comment.

Williams died at his Tiburon home in August. The coroner ruled his death a suicide that resulted from asphyxia caused by hanging.

Susan Williams has said the actor and comedian was struggling with depression, anxiety and a recent diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.

Williams had publicly acknowl-

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Foreign tourists visited Bali reached 3.76 million

SAN FRANCISCO — Robin Williams’ children and wife have gone to court in a fight over the late comedian’s estate. In papers filed in December in San Francisco Superior Court, Williams’ wife, Susan, says some of the late actor’s personal items were taken without her permission and asks the court to exclude the contents of the Tiburon home that she shared with Williams from the jewelry, memorabilia and other items Williams said the children should have.

The children, Zachary, Zelda and Cody, counter that Susan Williams is “adding insult to a terrible injury” by trying to change the trust agreement and rob them of the late actor’s clothing and other personal items.

“The Williams’ children are heartbroken that Petitioner, Mr. Williams’ wife of less than three years, has acted against his wishes by challenging the plans he so carefully made for his estate,” attorneys for the children said in court papers.

James Wagstaffe, an attorney for Susan Williams, said Monday his client was only seeking guidance

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DENPASAR - The number of foreign tourists visiting Bali Island reached 3.76 million during the January-December 2014 period, the Central Bureau of Statistics 2014, up 14.89 percent from 3.27 million in the previous year.

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Bobbi Kristina is fighting for her life

NEW YORK — Bobbi Kristina Brown is fighting for her life, according to a statement from the Houston family Monday. Police said the 21-year-old daughter of Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown was taken to a hospital Saturday after she was found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub in a suburban Atlanta townhome.

The statement said that Brown is surrounded by immediate family and that the family was requesting privacy. No more details were provided.

“We are asking you to honor our request for privacy during this difficult time,” the statement read.

“Thank you for your prayers, well wishes, and we greatly appreciate your continued support. “ Whitney Houston was found dead in a hotel bathtub in 2012. (ap)

“Most of the tourists landed in Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, by direct flights from their countries. Only 34,903 tourists came by cruisers,” Head of the Bali Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) Panusunan Siregar said on Monday.

The number surpassed the target set by Bali at 2,9 million foreign tourists in 2014.

Of the ten top tourist sources, nine showed significant increase,

and only Taiwan recorded a drop from 127,443 people in 2013 to 114,504 in 2014.

Australia sent 991,923 tourists to Bali last year, up 20.03 percent from 826,385 in 2013.

He said the Australian tourists constituted 26.33 percent of the total foreign tourists visiting the Island of Gods, followed by China 586,300 tourists, or an increase of 51.29 percent from 387,533 people in 2013.

In the third place is Malaysia with 225,572 tourists last year, or up by 13.23 percent from 199,223 in the previous year; followed by Japan 217,402 tourists, a hike of 4.46 percent from 208,115 people; Singapore 179,719 tourists; South Korea 146,088; France 128,350; Britain 127,040; Taiwan 114,504; and the USA 111,640 tourists last year.

In the meantime, 9.44 million foreign tourists visited Indonesia in

(BPS) reported.

“Cumulatively, the number of foreign tourists that visited the country in 2014 reached 9.44 million, which is an increase of 7.19 percent from the 8.32 million recorded in 2013,” Head of the BPS, Suryamin, told the press in Jakarta, Monday.

In December 2014 alone, some 915.3 thousand foreign tourists visited Indonesia. This was a 19.74 percent rise from that in November, and 6.35 percent year-on-year surge

from the 860.7 thousand tourists in December 2013.

Furthermore, a significant increase of 73.06 percent was recorded in the number of tourist arrivals at Lombok International Airport (BIL), West Nusa Tenggara province.

The rise at Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, was 15.11 percent, followed by Minangkabau International Airport in West Sumatra at 13.73 percent. “The lowest surge was at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, at just 0.26 percent,” Suryamin stated. (ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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This file photo showed foreign tourists sunbathed at Nusa Dua Beach. The number of foreign tourists visiting Bali Island reached 3.76 million during 2014, up 14.89 percent from 3.27 million in the previous year.

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Proliferation of café kindles the change of Balinese character

NEGARA - Proliferation of café as nightclubs having reached rural areas triggers social problems in the community. When calculated regarding its positive-negative impact, the negative impact is more prominent in the people’s life.

Rarely there is success story because people like to play at café. Even what they obtain is only misery either in the form of material having been drained or the loss of life. In Jembrana, for example, there are many impacts on social facts where people fall in love with cafés. Their sufferings are ranging from the infection of deadly diseases, HIV/AIDS to the draining of possessions for the sake of a café girl. There are

many interesting facts related to the identity of Balinese people left when setting foot at cafés. They will forget the time (feast day and activities) and get drunk due to liquor, drug and exotic waitresses mostly consisting of migrants.

The shift in the amicable Balinese human to become violent and temperamental has been ignited by toxin of the alcoholic drinks.

Even, in a feast day falling on full moon, Bali Post found a group of

teenagers dressed in worship attires (headdress, sarong and white shirt) visited one of the cafés at Delod Berawah at midnight. Although just drinking beer, it was highly deplored because they still put on worship attires. Another fact is the craze for listening to and singing songs of East Java.

The folk songs of East Java becoming the close neighbor to Jembrana are always played at almost all cafés in Jembrana. On

average the fans of the song are teenagers.

The fact that the café waitress vulnerably becomes a disease carrier is not wrong. Of the frequent population administration control made by the Jembrana Municipal Police in 2014, more than two women having profession as café waitress were recorded to have been positive to HIV/AIDS. The results were obtained when the Health Agency officers conducted an intense counseling to café girls and volunteers. The Head of the Jembrana Municipal Police, IGN Rai Budi, said that since taking

office he already found two café girls in Mendoyo subdistrict were ensnared and declared to be HIV positive after taking a VCT test.

Other than at café, there was also woman working as prostitute at Melaya village. Municipal Police took action by deporting them to their region of origin. Together with the Health Agency, his party supervised the three positive women. The government did not have the right to ban them from entering into and exiting from Jembrana, but would still conduct monitoring and counseling through the Health Agency. (olo)

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Development of cafe centralized at Delod Berawah

NEGARA - The Division Head of P2PL, Jembrana Health Agency, I Gusti Bagus Ketut Oka Parwata, recently added that from the operation was known that after performing VCT test his party found some HIV-positive people. The agency obtained the results from counseling and VCT volunteer testing.

More sadly, from the recognition they averagely had sexual intercourse with non-partner although outside working hours.

From the search of Bali Post, within the past 10 years only particular areas became the café development in Jembrana. Delod Berawah, for example, has dozens of cafés in a row along the beach with semi-permanent buildings. At Baluk there are two cafés, while at Yehkuning there were three cafés.

Meanwhile, at Gilimanuk there are four cafés. Indeed, it only provides drinks (beer) and singing plus a little swaying or dancing accompanied by café girl. Nothing is more so that it did not lead to immoral actions beyond it.

But behind it, the circulation and transaction of drug such as ecstasy freely occurred despite it was in relatively small number. Similarly, sexual intercourse by café waitress also easily occurred after working

hours. Through this sex transaction, they are susceptible to transmit diseases ranging from colds to HIV/ AIDS. It should also be understood that the café girls were also workers who need money for their life and family at home. So, no wonder, they sometimes work outside the norms.

They are also looking for livelihood and provision from a masher because they cannot always live from nightlife activities. There are many examples on Balinese man that married to a prostitute.

However, among the married couples, only a few that can last longer. The latest case was experienced by PW, 36, a Balinese man from Tegalcangkring, Mendoyo, who married a café girl M, 48, from Lumajang, East Java. PW knew his wife at one of the cafés at Yehkuning. From his association, PW fell in love with the woman having had three children until sacrificed his possessions in order that he could go to cafe and met the necessities.

PW even did not think if his idol woman M was ten years older.

Misfortune was just felt when his marriage entered the fourth year. How destroyed his heart was!

It was just like being struck by lightning in broad daylight, when he watched a nasty video similar

This Valentine

Taman Bhagawan Bali hosts world class intimate jazz concert

TANJUNG BENOA - Taman Bhagawan, one of the best outdoor event venues in Bali, is proud to be the host for the spectacular multi culture collaboration of world jazz musicians set for Saturday, 14th February 2015. The jazz concert will present Dwiki Dharmawan, Chad Wackerman, and Jimmy Haslip featuring Tohpati and I Nyoman Windha on Balinese Jegog. The Album titled ‘Love, Live and Passion’ will be launched in this intimate Jazz Concert in Bali, following similar concerts in Jakarta, Bandung and Jogjakarta. This album will be released by MoonJune Records Label in Los Angeles with Dwiki Dharmawan on keyboard, Jimmy Haslip on bass, and Chad Wackerman on drums.

Hundreds of fans of iconic Dwiki of Krakatu Band are expected to descend on Tanjung Benoa Bali on February 14th. “We all love jazz; this is a great location to release our new album,” says Dwiki, “The festivities will kick off on Saturday at Taman Bhagawan Bali from 7pm with launcing of the album. Hope-

fully there’ll be a lot of people there watching.”

The presence of these great international caliber musicians will be an excellent promotion platform for Bali as well.

Taman Bhagawan’s signature food stalls Kaki Lima, will enliven then night with selection of local snacks and drinks.

Taman Bhagawan is ideal for outdoor events with its collection of versatile open-air venues and alfresco dining options, which include several different spaces that collectively accommodate events of up to 2,000 persons. Taman Bhagawan is world-class venue, complete with five-star facilities and ser-

Mudiana

Healthy breakfast not necessarily expensive

The police inspect one of the cafes in Jembrana to his wife making love affair with his neighbor, NP. Funnily, the video was acquired while browsing on the internet accompanied by his wife

who was watching television. Since then, it was revealed the infidelity of his wife, a former café waitress, with his neighbor. He deeply regret-

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ted and mourned his life having been fully devoted to his wife. In fact, it has become a disgrace to him. (olo)

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Choosing the profession as an executive chef does not only make I Made Mudiana good at cooking and creating menus, but also creative in choosing food. The chef known to be firm and disciplined is happy to share his tips and delicious healthy breakfast.

According to Mudiana, a healthy breakfast menu was not necessarily expensive. Definitely, it was preservative-free and tastily consumed. “A breakfast does not have to use rice, meat, vegetables or imported and expensive fruits every morning. Rather, it can be replaced with two simple menus namely boiled bananas and tubers,” he explained.

Boiled bananas, said Mudiana, could be used as a substitute for rice breakfast menu that was useful for satisfying the hunger. “This food does not contain any cholesterol. Besides, these foods contain high enough fiber so they are useful to facilitate the digestive tract. The

preparation is also too easy, namely by boiling the bananas in water containing salt to taste. Boiled bananas can also be mixed with sugar or grated cheese,” said the chef having a hobby to play badminton.

Mudiana suggested that, other than boiled bananas, the typical tubers of Indonesia were also tasty to serve for breakfast menu. They were cassava, potato, taro and yam.

Among the tubers like white yam, red yam, purple yam and honey yam, sweet yam had the most complete nutrients. “Sweet yam is rich in vitamins and beta carotene.

It also contains minerals that are very good in helping the water balance in the body,” he explained.

Mudiana added that other than being simple, the food was also easy to prepare such as by boiling or frying. “It is one of the substitute foods that can be served as a delicious breakfast menu. Moreover, if served with warm tea or milk, it will be able to provide energy for the physical activities during the day,” he added. (ocha)

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Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Tech firms hint at more restraint

SAN FRANCISCO — Technology’s big-spending trio of Google, Facebook, and Amazon. com appear to be tightening their belts — at least a notch — in a concession to cost-conscious investors and a strong dollar that’s taking a big bite out of their revenue.

Hints of restraint were sprinkled throughout the companies’ latest quarterly reports released last week. Expenses at all three are still expected to rise faster than revenue this year, but Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Amazon. com Inc. signaled that spending increases might not be as dramatic as expected. The message boosted all of their stocks, which had been in Wall Street’s penalty box for the companies’ free-spending ways.

The shift can be traced to economic turmoil in Europe and Asia that has caused the dollar’s value to rise against many other currencies, said BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis. Revenue coming in from overseas will translate into fewer dollars — potentially chopping about 4 percent off of 2015 revenue compared with 2014, Gillis estimates.

“That’s a significant hit,” said Gillis. “They all have massive opportunities ahead that they want to pursue, but they are also going out of their way to sound more prudent.”

Amazon’s moderation was the most obvious: the e-commerce company’s fourth-quarter operating expenses rose at a slower pace than analysts had anticipated. That delighted investors who have become increasingly frustrated with recurring losses driven by CEO Jeff Bezos’ prolific spending on data centers, distribution centers, gadgets and drones.

Amazon shares, which had hit a 52-week low after the company’s prior earnings report in October, spiked nearly 14 percent on the fourth-quarter results.

“It looks like Amazon does actually care about its stock and profits,” Macquarie Securities analyst Ben Schachter wrote in a research note. Amazon earned

$214 million in the fourth quarter.

The change was more about tone than the actual numbers released by Facebook and Google, since spending at both companies still accelerated in the fourth quarter. Investors initially seemed spooked but settled down after reassuring remarks from Facebook and Google executives. Since their last quarterly earnings reports in October, Google’s shares had fallen 4 percent and Facebook’s shares slipped 6 percent. But the day after announcing earnings last week, Google shares rose nearly 5 percent and Facebook climbed 2 percent.

Google Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette stressed that the search giant’s expenses included $300 million in one-time accounting items and emphasized the company’s commitment to finding “a healthy balance between growth and discipline.” That balancing act prompted the company to recently suspend consumer sales of Google Glass, its Internetconnected eyewear, in an effort to design a version more likely to appeal to customers. Without providing specifics, Pichette promised Google will cancel other projects that “don’t have the impact we had hoped for.”

Meanwhile, Facebook revised its 2015 budget. The social networking leader’s costs may increase by as much as 70 percent this year, down from a previous ceiling of 75 percent, according to Chief Financial Officer David Wehner.

Google, Facebook and Amazon all spend heavily in effort to maintain the competitive advantages they built on desktop and laptop computers as tech usage now tilts toward smartphones and tablets.

The companies also splurge on expensive experiments that may never pay off but that they view as valuable research.

Google plows money into a wide range of projects such as driverless cars, life-like robots, intelligent appliances, Internetbeaming balloons and satellites and even a quest to discover the Fountain of Youth. CEO Larry Page justifies these “moonshots” by pointing to hugely successful products such as Google’s Android operating system, Chrome browser and YouTube video sites that were once viewed as ill-advised investments.

Facebook has been expanding into virtual reality and mobile messaging. Amazon.com is developing a fleet of drones to deliver packages to customers, creating its own original television shows, while also dabbling in a variety of gadgets such as the FireStick and Fire phone aimed at making it easier for people to buy goods from its website.

Executives from all three companies acknowledge some of these projects are bound to fail, but some will be so successful that they will more than offset losses stemming from the flops.

“Bold bets...pay for a lot of failures,” Bezos said during a technology conference in December. “I’ve made billions of dollars of failures at Amazon.com.”

That’s the kind of talk that most investors would prefer not to hear, of course. “There is this group thinking where everyone is saying, ‘If you aren’t failing, you aren’t trying hard enough,’” Macquarie’s Schachter said in an interview.

“Obviously, there is a lot of truth to some of these things, but from an investor point of view, it can be frustrating.” (ap)

NEW YORK - Tablet sales cooled dramatically in 2014 from the red-hot growth pace a year earlier, surveys showed Monday. Research firm IDC said global tablet sales for the full year rose just 4.4 percent for the year to 229.6 million units, after a jump of more than 50 percent in 2013.

After the euphoria around tablets in 2013, the market has slowed because consumers are keeping their devices longer and turning in some cases to large “phablet” smartphones or new

“ultramobile” PCs. The fourth quarter saw the first year-over-year decline in sales since the first iPads were released in 2010, according to IDC. Overall sales dipped 3.2 percent in the key holiday quarter compared to a year earlier to 76.1 million units.

A separate survey by Strategy Analytics said quarterly tablet sales hit 78.3 million, a slim gain of one percent.

“The iPhone 6 products are putting pressure on the iPad Mini and the continued success of the Mac could be inhibiting some iPad

Air 2 growth,” said Eric Smith, analyst at Strategy Analytics.

But IDC said the market could pick up again this year. “Despite an apparent slowdown of the market, we maintain our forecast about tablet growth in 2015,” said Jean Philippe Bouchard, an IDC analyst.

“Microsoft’s new OS, a general shift toward larger screen form factor and productivity focused solutions, and technology innovations such as gesture interface that could be introduced in tablets will help the market maintain positive

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On Menjangan Island

Resort development plan reaps complain

SINGARAJA - The concerns on the reduction in revenue faced by residents that manage boat rental due to the presence of the resort development plan on Menjangan Island received complaints from tourism actors doubling as residents of Pejarakan and Sumberklampok village. Allegedly due to their revenue opportunities are oppressed, local residents began to speak up against the resort development plan.

Several residents revealed the number of visiting guests that would hire boat services reduced because supposedly they would immediately stay at the resort when it would be established on the island. Automatically it would reduce their income for supporting daily needs considering most people relied on their livelihood by providing transport services for travelers. “This can affect the income of our residents. Moreover, quite a lot of local people are working here as boat driver in the area Labuanlalang and Banyuwedang. Frankly speaking, we are confused about what to do later,” said Deputy Chief of Pejarakan Tourism Awareness Community (Pokmasta), Ketut Danu.

Allegedly the headman of Sumberklampok and Pejarakan did not make socialization to their residents before deciding the deal of support to investors. Residents began furious even though the PT PTP already promised to provide employment opportunities for 70 percent to local residents. On the other hand, location of the resort development was alleged to disturb the sacred area of the Agung Pingit Klenting Sari temple precisely situated on Menjangan Island. “Residents are still collecting

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Tablet sales show more signs of cooling growth in 2015.”

Apple remained the top seller in the quarter with a market share of 28.1 percent, according to IDC, and 27 percent according to Strategy Analytics, even though iPad sales were down 18 percent.

Samsung was the number two seller with a 14.5 percent share, IDC said.

The IDC report said China’s Lenovo was third with a 4.8 percent share and Taiwan’s Asus fourth with 4.0 percent.

According to IDC, Amazon -- which does not release precise

tablet sales figures -- was in fifth place with a 2.3 percent share, but sales of its Kindle Fire tablets slid 70 percent from a year earlier in the past quarter to 1.7 million units.

This photo combo of images shows the Amazon, Google and Facebook logos. Technology’s big-spending trio of Google, Facebook and Amazon.com appear to be tightening their belts a notch in a concession to costconscious investors and a strong dollar that’s biting into some of their revenue. (afp)

an action of rejection. It is meant to maintain the temple sanctity on the island. We do not want to be tempted by the promise of job offers to local residents,” he added.

Similar rejection was also revealed by Abdul Karim Abraham, a resident of Pejarakan who hoped this issue should not be protracted. His party suspected the resort construction plan would take advantage of one of the ten hectares of utilization zone on Menjangan Island. The investment value was estimated to reach IDR 200 billion, and the number of rooms reached 100 units.

The condition got special attention considering the investors would not be easy to let their capital go for the hotel construction. “From the design at hand, the resort will be built on the island by using the utilization zone.

But we want it can be returned into jungle zone so that it will not be exploited,” said Abraham.

On the other hand, the headman of Pejarakan, Made Astawa, justified the resort development plan on the Menjangan Island. It was based on prior coordination between the Pejarakan and Sumberklampok village. “We’ve made coordination previously. There is a special study by the West Bali

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Tourists visited Menjangan Island, recently. The concerns on the reduction in revenue faced by residents that manage boat rental due to the presence of the resort development plan on Menjangan Island received complaints from tourism actors doubling as residents of Pejarakan and Sumberklampok village.

National Park (TNBB) and Ministry of Forestry if it belonged to utilization zone. It was divided into cultural zone, religious zone and utilization zone. Our support does not violate the law. This includes 70 percent job opportunity for our residents in the resort,” said Astawa.

It was affirmed by the Head of Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Nyoman Sutrisna, regarding the problem of Menjangan

Island faced by tourism players from the surrounding community.

Management of the Menjangan Island was not the authority of Buleleng government, while it was the authority of the TNBB or the Ministry of Forestry. Although there was a Law No.1/2014 on the management of coastal territory and small islands, his party could not contribute in it. “The issue on the resort development plan on

Silversmithing develops at West Seraya AMLAPURA - Lately silversmithing developed rapidly at West Seraya village, Karangasem. A number of artisans who had previously opened a business at Celuk, Gianyar, or just became a laborer in the business of silver in Gianyar, then returned home to Seraya.

At their home village, they opened an independent business.

It was justified by the headman of West Seraya, Wayan Patra Suarsa, Monday (Feb 2) at local village.

One of the local residents, Wayan Sumiarta, said that at first a silversmith appeared at Kalanganyar hamlet. After seeing the success to establish such a business, other colleagues then followed.

After that, said Patra, more than ten silversmiths already opened

their independent business. Other than at Kalanganyar, similar business was also established at Selalang hamlet. It could absorb a total of more than 50 laborers. There was one silversmith continuing to evolve as the center, while others did the finishing process for the craft like rings. Marketing of the products were taken out of the village, especially to Celuk, Gianyar. “Understandably there are no tourist areas at Seraya village and neither are many passing tourists.

As a result, the craft products must be marketed outside the region,” said Patra, who just served as the headman for a year.

Patra added that lately local people did not only work as silversmith, but also as the maker of sun snack.

Incidentally the maker of the sun cake was the younger brother-inlaw of Patra, Ketut Putu Megajana.

The cake-making business could absorb 20 workers. “I am grateful that at the village known to be barren village has begun to develop a variety of businesses. We’re not arrogant, the communities at our village are creative enough when given a motivation,” he said.

Marketing of the sun cake had also reached the Buleleng region.

Sometimes, said Patra, his brotherin-law was overwhelmed to meet the existing orders. Even, at his village there had been an oyster mushroom farm. It was something virtually impossible to be done at the barren village and during dry season the temperature was hot

enough. But with the creativity and tenacity, the oyster mushroom could be cultivated at West Seraya.

He added that lately through the village-owned enterprise, his party continued to encourage his residents to open a business. It could be started with a small-scale business. Most importantly, people should be creative and smart to see business opportunity and never easily give up. “I am grateful because lately those businesses can absorb employment and there are no longer unemployed people. As a result, the crime rate virtually reaches zero as all people were busy with their respective creativity. Besides, people rarely have the opportunity to drink alcohol or committed other negative deeds,” he said. (013)

Menjangan Island becomes the authority of the TNBB or Ministry of Forestry. We are based on the Law No.1/2012 on the management of coastal territory and small islands,” he affirmed. (kmb34)

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May, predicted as the peak of dengue fever

Northeast US gets its 2nd major workday snowstorm in a week

BANGLI - The peak of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) transmission during this rainy season is estimated to occur in May. Such prediction is based on the previous year where in the fifth month in 2014 the figure of dengue cases was recorded to reach the highest up to 38 cases. Meanwhile, until the end of January 2015, the number of people in Bangli suffering dengue reached 9 cases.

The fogging is one of the effort to perevent the spread of dengue fever

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The Head of the Bangli Health Agency, Wayan Sudiana, said on Monday (Feb 2) the nine people suffering dengue fever in January scattered in several regions. Six of them were from Bangbang village, Tembuku subdistrict, two people from Blumbang hamlet, Bangli subdistrict and another from Kayuamba, Susut subdistrict.

Those who were contracted by dengue outbreak so far already received treatment at hospital, and some of them had also been declared to recover. Although 9 people were contracted by dengue fever, such amount was still considered normal. “Judging from the chart, there is no prominent case, so that it was not declared as an extraordinary case,” he explained. As previous year, Sudiana predicted the peak of dengue transmission cycle this year would take place in May. He estimated the case to decline in June-July. “Usually in the rainy season or the transitional period, the number of cases will increase,” he added.

To anticipate the outbreak of dengue in Bangli, his party at the Health Agency claimed to have conducted various preventive efforts, including the implementation of fogging at dengue affected region, eradication of mosquito nest and the provision of abate powder. For these programs, this year Bangli allocated a budget worth IDR 104 million, an increase of IDR 40 million from the budget last year.

Meanwhile, based on the data owned by the Bangli Health Agency in 2014, the dengue fever in Bangli reached 255 cases, with details that in January there were 17 cases, February (23 cases), March (32 cases) and April (24 cases). Furthermore, in May it rose to 38 cases, June (34 cases), July (14 cases), August (18 cases), September (10 cases), October (19 cases), November (13 cases) and December (13 cases). (ina)

French citizen hides drug package in helmet DENPASAR - Aside from local residents, foreigners are also alleged to take part in the drug trafficking in Bali. As evidence, the suspect identified as YAN, 43, was arrested on Jalan Pura Banyu Kuning, Padangsambian, West Denpasar, by Denpasar Police Narcotic Unit after taking 2 packages of crystal meth, Friday (Jan 30).

“In terms of its mode, the suspect hiding the crystal meth package in the cork of his helmet can be reasonably suspected if he is an incumbent. It is the new mode committed by the French suspect,” said the Chief of Denpasar Police

Narcotic Unit, Gede Ganefo, Monday (Feb 2).

Based on the result of the interrogation by the officer, the suspect having the address on Jalan Taman Sari, Kerobokan admitted to have been living in Bali for 8 years. The suspect with the profession as a furniture designer was originally married to a woman from Bali. But they decided to separate. “He admitted to have divorced, but we do not dare to ascertain because there is no evidence. He is now living with another woman,” he said.

The suspect YAN was arrested approximately at 8:00 p.m. The

arrest originated from public information if there was a suspicious person at the scene. Police almost missed because when the body and clothing of the suspects were searched, police found no drugs.

But after carefully checked his helmet, in fact, police could find 2 packages of crystal meth weighing 1.37 grams.

“He has prepared a special hole in the cork of his helmet. The crystal meth package was hidden there. All this time, the culprits usually placed the illicit goods in the pocket of pants or shirt, bag or motorcycle. The suspect said if

the package would be given to his friend,” he said.

Dozens secured

A team of the Directorate of Bali Police Narcotics arrested a drug dealer with the initials LF, 30, on Jalan Gunung Agung Gang Bumi Ayu, West Denpasar, Sunday (Feb 1) approximately at 10:00 p.m.

According to a police resource person, the arrest was led by Chief of Operations Unit, the Directorate of Narcotics, Nyoman Sebudi.

The source added that the suspect was arrested in front of the boarding house at the scene. After

searching the suspect’s room, in the left pocket of his pants was found a package of crystal meth, while from the bag was secured 21 packages of crystal meth and 24 ecstasy pills.

A development was also carried out to the residence of the suspect on Jalan Gunung Batur, Denpasar.

Having searched his rented room, on top of wardrobe was found a bag containing two packs of crystal meth of big package and 46 ecstasy pills. In addition, it was also secured a small package of crystal meth in front of his bedroom floor. (kmb36)

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BOSTON — Boston scrambled to dig out Monday from the second major winter storm in a week and delayed a celebratory Super Bowl parade, and forecasters from Philadelphia to Portland, Maine, warned that “flash freezing” could make roads dangerously slippery. Officials said a Massachusetts woman was run over and killed by a snowplow, and New York state police said two people were killed in a multivehicle crash on an interstate highway in Rye.

South Korean army soldiers rappel down during an exercise against a terrorist attack at a training camp in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015.

Officials in Ohio, where the storm hit before slamming into the Northeast, said a Toledo police officer died of an apparent heart attack while shoveling snow in his driveway Sunday. Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins was heavily sedated and in critical condition Monday, a day after he went into cardiac arrest and his SUV crashed into a pole on his way home not long after a news conference.

The snowstorm, which dumped more than 19 inches (48 centimeters) of snow on Chicago, deepened off the southern New England coast, bringing accumulations up to 18 inches (46 centimeters) to the greater Boston area and up to a foot (30 centimeters) of slushy wintry mix to Hartford, Connecticut, Providence, Rhode Island, southern New Hampshire and Vermont — places still reeling from the up to 3 feet (90 centimeters) they got last week.

More than 20 counties in New York state were under a winter

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean soldier was sentenced to death Tuesday for killing five comrades and injuring seven others in a shooting and grenade attack last year, the Defense Ministry said. Shooting rampages by bullied soldiers are not unusual in South Korea, which requires all able-bodied men to serve about two years in the military in the face of threats from North Korea.

The soldier, surnamed Yim, has told investigators that he threw a grenade and opened fire on his colleagues in June after seeing drawings they made of him that he considered insulting. Yim had fled into the forest near the border with North Korea but was captured following a failed suicide attempt.

Yim, who has been identified only by his surname, was sentenced to death in a military court in the eastern Gangwon province, a

A man clears his driveway of snow in Derry, N.H., Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. Southern New Hampshire, which was hit with over two feet of snow last week, is expected to receive as much as another foot and a half in a winter storm that stretches from Michigan to Maine.

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S. Korea soldier sentenced to death for killing 5 comrades

Defense Ministry official in Seoul said on condition of anonymity citing department rules. He said Yim can appeal. South Korea has not executed anyone since December 1997, although death sentences are still occasionally issued by courts.

In 2005, a soldier tossed a grenade and opened fire at a front-line army unit in a rampage that killed eight colleagues. He said he was enraged at superiors who had verbally abused him. The soldier was later sentenced to death but hasn’t been executed.

Past rampages have raised questions about the discipline and readiness of South Korea’s military, which faces North Korean troops across the world’s most heavily fortified border. The Korean Peninsula remains in a technical state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. (ap)

storm warning, with up to 16 inches (40 centimeters) forecast for some areas. The National Weather Service issued a “flash freeze” warning for New York City and Long Island. Similar warnings were out for Philadelphia and up the coast to Maine as temperatures dropped, freezing roads already slick with snow and slush.

Rush-hour commuters in New York City were stranded on a packed subway train that lost power for 2½ hours Monday before it could be towed to a station. Five other trains were stuck behind it.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh canceled school for a second day and urged drivers to stay off the roads so workers could clear away snow for a downtown parade honoring the New England Patriots for their fourth Super Bowl win.

The parade had been set for Tuesday morning, but late Monday, Walsh announced that it would be postponed until Wednesday morn-

ing to buy the city some time.

The storm delayed two of the nation’s biggest court cases — the murder trial of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez and jury selection in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Testimony was to resume Tuesday in the Hernandez trial. But federal court officials in Boston, who follow the city’s school closure schedule, said the Tsarnaev proceedings would be delayed a second day.

Monday was also Groundhog Day. The handlers of Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, said the furry rodent forecast six more weeks of winter. Members of the top hatwearing Inner Circle announced the “prediction” Monday morning.

Legend has it that if Phil sees his shadow on Feb. 2, winter will last another six weeks. If not, spring comes early. (ap)

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BUSINESS Energy firms boosted in Asia as oil prices rise

However, Seoul dipped 0.55 HONG KONG - Oil prices rose again on Tuesday, extending a recent rally and providing support to regional energy stocks, while Wall Street provided a strong lead despite a weak percent, while Tokyo eased 0.10 percent as the yen strengthened manufacturing reading.

The euro held its own in early trade as investors keep tabs on a tour of Europe by Greece’s new leaders aimed at ramping up support for a renegotiation of its massive bailout.

Crude enjoyed some muchneeded buying after data showed the recent slump in prices has led to a decline in the number of rigs drilling.

US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for March delivery rose 36 cents to $49.93 while Brent crude for March rose 18 cents to $54.93.

The rises will come as welcome relief for markets after the black gold slumped more than 50 percent from its June 2014 peak owing to a global glut and a strong dollar.

Energy firms were the main winners from the rises. Hong Konglisted Sinopec added 1.65 percent and CNOOC gained 3.50 percent, while in Sydney Woodside added 2.35 percent and Santos surged 3.75 percent. Inpex in Tokyo was 5.26 percent higher.

“There’s a sense of security expanding among investors” as oil

climbs, Toshihiko Matsuno, chief strategist at SMBC Friend Securities Co. in Tokyo, told Bloomberg News.

“The rise in prices has helped doubts about the global economic slowdown recede, and eased worry over default risk and downgrade risks for both countries and companies.”

Regional stock markets were broadly higher. Shanghai rose 1.12 percent, Hong Kong added 0.24 percent and Sydney put on 0.23 percent, while Taipei gained 0.53 percent.

against the dollar.

The crude rally also lent support to Wall Street, where investors were able to brush off data indicating the US manufacturing sector slowed in January. While shares rose, there are fears that weakness in China, Japan and Europe is acting as a weight on the US economy, which also saw a sharp slowdown in growth at the end of last year.

The Dow rallied 1.14 percent, the S&P 500 jumped 1.30 percent and the Nasdaq added 0.89 percent.

The euro bought $1.1347 and 133.09 yen against $1.1343 and

SYDNEY — Australia’s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low of 2.25 percent on Tuesday in a bid to jolt an economy weighed down by falling commodity prices.

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s quarter percentage point rate cut at a monthly board meeting was its first since August 2013. It came as a surprise to many economists, who expected the bank to hold off on lowering the rate until later in the year. Subdued inflation, however, has given the central bank more scope to stimulate Australia’s $1 trillion economy.

The news shook the Australian dollar which dropped 1.8 percent 76.5 cents. The stock market was

boosted, with the S&P/ASX 200 up 1.5 percent.

Resource-rich Australia managed to avoid a recession during the global financial crisis thanks to a decade-long mining boom. But with the economy weakening in China, which is Australia’s largest export market, prices for commodities such as iron ore and coal have dropped.

Australia’s move follows monetary easing steps by other central banks though is modest compared with the unprecedented stimulus programs that Japan and Europe have embarked on to revive long stagnant economies.

In a statement, the central bank’s governor Glenn Stevens said com-

modity prices have continued to decline, “in some cases sharply,” particularly oil.

The bank also said that while the U.S. economy had strengthened, European and Japanese economies were weaker than expected, and forecasts for global growth this year were moderate.

“In Australia the available information suggests that growth is continuing at a below-trend pace, with domestic demand growth overall quite weak,” Stevens said. The fall in oil prices would offer “significant support” to consumer spending but that is partly offset by weakening growth in incomes, he said.

“The economy is likely to be operating with a degree of spare

capacity for some time yet,” he said.

Treasurer Joe Hockey dubbed the rate cut good news that would bolster the country’s economy.

“It is going to help to create more jobs because business is going to be able to pay less for their debt, as consumers should pay less for their debt and as people with a mortgage should pay less for their debt,” he told reporters in Canberra, the nation’s capital.

Stevens has repeatedly stressed that the Australian dollar is too high, despite the currency plummeting in recent weeks to around 77 U.S. cents, the lowest level since the global financial crisis. The Australian dollar reached an all-time high

133.43 yen.

Greece’s new far-left government is looking for support from European governments and investors in its bid to renegotiate its 240billion-euro bailout.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited Cyprus in his first foreign trip since his Syriza party swept to power last month, while Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis was in London as part of a diplomatic drive.

After meeting Varoufakis in London, his British counterpart George Osborne warned: “It’s clear that the standoff between Greece and the eurozone is fast becoming the biggest risk to the global economy.” (afp)

Australia cuts interest rate to record low 2.25 percent

of $1.10 in 2011.

In his statement Tuesday, Stevens acknowledged the Australian dollar had declined noticeably, but said it remains above most estimates of its fundamental value. “A lower exchange rate is likely to be needed to achieve balanced growth in the economy,” he said.

Spiros Papadopoulos, senior economist at National Australia Bank, suspects the bank will cut the rate again later this year, though not at its next meeting.

“The combination of weak growth, further increases in unemployment and a very subdued inflation outlook has really given them that room to maneuver,” he said. (ap)

AP Photo/Rick Rycroft

A woman walks past the Reserve Bank of Australia in Sydney, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015. Australia’s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low of 2.25 percent on Tuesday in a bid to jolt an economy weighed down by falling commodity prices.

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President to announce decision on police chief

JAKARTA - President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo will soon announce a decision regarding the sole police chief candidate Budi Gunawan (BG) who has been named a suspect in a bribery case by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).”The president is facing a situation wherein the police chief candidate has been approved by the Parliament, but, in reality, he has been named a suspect. It is not easy to find a solution to the dilemma. It will better if Mr BG withdraws. If not, this dilemma has to be solved. At the end, the president must take a decision,” Minister/ State Secretary Pratikno stated on Tuesday.

He said President Jokowi is basically following the existing legal process and hopes that every party will also support the process.

President Jokowi recently post-

poned the induction of Commissioner General BG as the new national police chief after he was named a suspect by the KPK, although the parliament has approved

BG’s candidacy.

He later sought views of various prominent figures including former president B.J. Habibie and retired general Prabowo Subianto

regarding the polemic on the appointment of BG as the sole police chief candidate and the ongoing dispute between the KPK and the National Police.

The head of state set up a ninemember Independent Consultative Team for advice regarding the police chief issue and the ongoing conflict between the police and KPK. The team suggested Jokowi to not induct Commissioner General

JAKARTA - Two Australians on death row in Bali will be among the next group of prisoners to be executed in Indonesia, an official said Monday, as Jakarta takes an increasingly hard line against drug traffickers.

Attorney General H.M. Prasetyo did not say when or where Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the leaders of the so-called “Bali Nine” drug-smuggling gang, would be put to death by firing squad, only that “they will be included” in the next batch.

Indonesia last month executed six

drug traffickers including five foreigners, triggering a diplomatic storm as Brazil and the Netherlands -- whose citizens were among those killed -withdrew their ambassadors.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has been a vocal supporter of capital punishment, and had already rejected clemency appeals from Sukumaran and Chan.

The pair were arrested in Bali in 2005 and sentenced to death the following year for attempting to smuggle eight kilograms (18 pounds)

of heroin out of the Indonesian holiday island.

Apart from confirming the men would be in the next group to be executed, the attorney general did not give any further details to reporters, or say who else would be included in the group.

In December Sukumaran lost his appeal for presidential clemency, the last chance by a death row convict to avoid the firing squad.

Chan’s appeal was rejected last month, removing the final hurdle for

Jakarta to push ahead with executing the pair. Authorities have insisted they be put to death together as they committed their crime together.

On Friday they applied for a fresh judicial review of their cases but the attorney general’s office has insisted there are no more legal avenues open to them.

Jakarta said last week it was ready to execute seven foreign drug convicts on death row, including the Australians.

Widodo, known as Jokowi, has

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BG as the new national police chief in order to preserve the institution’s honor.

“The president must assure that any law enforcement official who has been named a suspect must resign or not hold any official post to preserve the honor of the police and the KPK institutions,” Syafii Maarif, the chief of the Independent Consultative Team, recently noted after a meeting with Jokowi. (ant)

Australians among next group to be executed

shocked rights groups with his support for executions, as they had hoped he would take a softer line on capital punishment.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has urged Indonesia to show mercy to the pair.

“We were surprised -- and dismayed -- that Jokowi decided to make the death penalty a signature issue of the early part of his administration,” Phelim Kine, deputy director Asia for Human Rights Watch, told AFP. (afp)

Six more AirAsia crash victims found

JAKARTA - Indonesian divers on Monday found another six victims of the AirAsia plane crash, an official said, taking to 84 the number of bodies retrieved since the accident in late December.

Two bodies were found inside the fuselage of the plane, while another four were located near the wreckage on the bottom of the Java Sea. Another body was located on Sunday as the national search and rescue agency resumed operations.

Divers had taken a two-day break after searching at sea for weeks in poor weather conditions.

The mission is continuing to find the bodies of the remaining 78 people aboard Flight QZ8501, which went down in stormy weather during what was supposed to be a short trip from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.

“Divers will continue to search for more bodies tomorrow,” S.B. Supriyadi, a search and rescue agency official who has been coordinating the operation, told AFP. The Indonesian military, which has provided the bulk of personnel and equipment for the operation, withdrew from the search last week. (afp)

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Indonesian divers on Monday found another six victims of the AirAsia plane crash, an official said, taking to 84 the number of bodies retrieved since the accident in late December.

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Hostage killings highlight threat, meager options for Japan

Israeli prime minister calls for scrapping UN Gaza war probe

TOKYO — The killing of two Japanese taken hostage by the Islamic State group has violently driven home the high stakes Japan faces and limited options it can muster in such circumstances. It also offers a glimpse into how Japan is struggling to handle the rising menace of terrorism.

Until this crisis, Japan had not become directly embroiled in the fight against the militants, who now control about a third of both Syria and neighboring Iraq in a self-declared caliphate. Tokyo’s backing for U.S.-led air strikes against the Islamic State group is confined to financial and humanitarian aid for refugees and other non-military support for countries affected by the conflict.

That proved no hindrance for the jihadis, and Japan is re-examining its response to the threat, both abroad and at home, mindful also of Tokyo’s preparations for the 2020 Olympic Games. Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday that the government convened a meeting on counterterrorism to review the situation.

“During the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, there will be many visitors from overseas and needless to say, we will implement fullscale measures to prepare,” Suga.

Japan’s options for trying to free the hostages were limited. Tokyo lacks a strong diplomatic presence in the region and has a very small corps of Arab experts — only about 30 people in this case, the foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, told parliament. It is unclear whether paying ransom would have been an option. Moreover, the military is confined by the constitution, drafted by U.S. occupying forces after World War II, to a strictly self-defense role and would be unable to stage a rescue attempt.

A video over the weekend showing the beheading of journalist Kenji Goto, purportedly from the Islamic State militants, carried chilling threats to single out Japanese anywhere as targets.

Addressing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a man resembling a militant seen in other beheading videos by the Islamic State group says, “because of your reckless decision to take part in an unwinnable war, this knife will not only slaughter Kenji, but will also carry on and cause carnage wherever your people are found. So let the nightmare for Japan begin.”

Abe has made security a top priority of his administration. He ordered greater vigilance at airports and at Japanese facilities overseas, such as embassies and schools. The government already was considering sending troops for overseas rescues. (ap)

The U.N. commission was due to issue its report next month.

Israel did not cooperate with it, saying it was hostile to Israel and that its conclusions were known in advance.

The summer’s war in Gaza, the third between Israel and Hamas since the group seized the seaside territory, killed more than 2,200 Palestinians and 72 people on the Israeli side. At least 1,483 Palestinian civilians were killed in the war — 66 percent of the overall death toll — according to preliminary United Nations figures.

The U.N. commission chief, Canadian law professor William Schabas, was reported earlier Tuesday to be stepping down as head of the inquiry. Schabas had been outspoken in his criticism

Jordanians carry banners and light candles during a candle vigil for Jordanians in support for Japan, in front of the Japanese embassy, in Amman, Jordan, Monday, Feb. 2, 2015.

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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015.

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for scrapping a U.N. commission tasked with investigating potential war crimes committed last summer in Gaza after reports emerged that its chief resigned amid accusations he was biased against Israel. Netanyahu said the commission, set up by the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council, was an “anti-Israeli body” that has proved it has nothing to do with human rights. of Israel and previously offered consultancy services to the Palestinians Liberation Organization.

After Schabas’ appointment last year, he said he wouldn’t let his past criticism of Israeli leaders affect his ability to carry out the investigation. Officials in Geneva could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday. Netanyahu has accused the U.N. commission of unfairly targeting Israel and ignoring abuses elsewhere.

“This is the same council that in 2014 made more decisions against Israel than against Iran, Syria and North Korea combined,” Netanyahu said, adding that Gaza’s Hamas rulers “need to be investigated, not Israel.”

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he didn’t expect

Schabas’ resignation to affect the final report but credited Israeli diplomacy efforts nonetheless with bringing about the resignation.

“Even the biggest hypocrites in the international bodies cannot ignore that having Shabbas investigate Israel is like having Cain investigate who murdered Abel,” Lieberman added. Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi said the Israeli officials remarks were “typical Israeli tactics.”

“They try to intimidate, they try to slander, they try to discredit, they make it extremely difficult for anybody to take any position that would hold Israel accountable or investigating Israeli violations or Israeli war crimes,” she said. (ap)

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Gili Biaha AMLAPURA - Just a few kilometers from Padang Bay is very

small reef island: Gili Biaha. Gili means small island. Gili Biaha

Destination also has know as a cave sharks.

This is home for many white tip sharks, hiding on the cave. This small shark, grown up to 1,7 meters and is a thin, gray fish with white tips to dorsal and tail fins.

Although this animal known to

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be aggressive in some areas, it is no considered dangerous in Gili Biaha.

The current is quite wild here, sometimes it can form a whirlpool. Some walls and some slopes with a very healthy reef surround

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Pelicans end Hawks’ 19-game winning streak, 115-100

the entire island. The wall is black with abundant soft coral in some area. There is lots of small marine life, lobsters, and Molamola, the oceanic fish, seasonal appear in this site, specially July – October.

NEW ORLEANS — The Atlanta Hawks’ club-record 19-game winning streak was broken Monday in a 115-100 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans. Anthony Davis had 29 points and 13 rebounds to help New Orleans win for the sixth time in seven games, a stint which includes victories over several contending squads including Dallas and the Los Angeles Clippers.

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McLaren Formula One racing driver Jenson Button of Britain sits in his car as he is pushed by members of his team during pre-season testing at the Jerez racetrack in southern Spain February 2, 2015.

Jeff Teague scored 21 for Atlanta, but the Hawks fell behind by double digits in the first quarter and failed to even tie it. Eric Gordon scored 20 points for New Orleans, while Tyreke Evans scored 15 points and tied a season high with 12 assists for the fourth time in five games.

Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving scored 24 points, and LeBron James added 18 points and 11 assists as the Cavaliers staggered to their 11th straight win 97-84.

The winning streak is Cleveland’s longest since reeling off 13 in a row — a franchise record — in 2010, the last season of James’ first stint with the club. The Cavs had trouble putting away the young

Philadelphia Sixers, who did all they could to stay close but don’t have the firepower to keep up with Irving, James and one of the NBA’s hottest teams.

At Oklahoma City, Russell Westbrook’s second triple-double of the season and 10th of his career helped the Thunder defeat the Orlando Magic 104-97 without the injured Kevin Durant. Westbrook, an AllStar point guard, had 25 points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds. Durant sat out with a sprained big toe on his left foot.

Victor Oladipo scored 22 points and Nikola Vucevic scored 20 points for the Magic, who lost their ninth straight. The New Orleans Hornets

downed the Washington Wizards 92-88 after Al Jefferson had 18 points and 12 rebounds. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist added 13 points and 13 rebounds, Brian Roberts scored 18 points, and Gerald Henderson put in 17 for the Hornets.

In other games, Khris Middleton scored 25 points, and Giannis Antetokounmpo had 12 points and 12 rebounds as the Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Toronto Raptors 8275, the Brooklyn Nets edged the Los Angeles Clippers 102-100, the Dallas Mavericks downed the Minnesota Timberwolves 100-94 and the Memphis Grizzlies narrowly beat the Phoenix Suns 102101. (ap)

Button claims McLaren-Honda breakthrough

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Jenson Button insists there is no alarm at McLaren’s troubled start to Formula 1 testing with Honda, claiming it made a late breakthrough with its reliability dramas on Monday. The Briton and his team-mate Fernando Alonso have managed to complete just six laps each over the first two days of Jerez running thanks to problems with the new Honda F1 engine.

Sensor issues on the first day for Alonso were followed by an unspecified glitch with a power unit component when Button took over for Monday.

But McLaren was encouraged that Button was able to complete a trouble free lap just before the session finished - lifting hopes of a better day on Tuesday. “It’s not been the easiest start to the season, but as we know it’s a very complicated power unit,” Button said.

“We will get our heads around it and, in terms of the problems today, we did our last run in the wet to understand the issue and we’re hoping for a lot more productive

day three and four.”

McLaren’s best lap time and lap number tally is worse than Red Bull managed on the second day of its difficult first test with Renault’s V6 turbo 12 months ago.

But Button says he still takes comfort from how Red Bull managed to recover and take an on-theroad podium in last year’s Australian Grand Prix before Daniel Ricciardo’s disqualification. “You look at where the Red Bull was in the first couple of tests last year and even the last one in Bahrain, they finished second [before disqualification] at the first grand prix,” he said.

“We always knew the first test was going to be difficult, it always is. “It’s not as straightforward as it used to be with sticking an engine straight into the car and trying to pound round.

It’s a very complex system now.

“We’ve had a few things that we’ve been able to solve now.

And tomorrow we’ll see where we stand.” (net)

AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

New Orleans Pelicans guard Quincy Pondexter (20) blocks a shot as Atlanta Hawks guard Dennis Schroder drives to the basket in the second half of an NBA basketball game in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. The Pelicans won 115-100.

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Ghana and Ivory Coast eye final showdown astating in beating Guinea 3-0 in their quarter-final on Sunday with cleverly created goals but did see captain Asamoah Gyan hurt in a disgraceful tackle right at the end of the game. He is now doubtful for Thursday’s match.

LONDON - Crystal Palace snapped up South Korean attacking midfielder Lee Chung-yong and re-signed Manchester United winger Wilfried Zaha on a fiveyear deal before the transfer window closed on Monday. Lee joined from English second tier side Bolton Wanderers for an undisclosed fee, while 22-yearold Zaha made his temporary

move permanent by signing a five-year-deal.

Zaha was the last signing of the Alex Ferguson era, joining United from Palace in January 2013 for a reported 15 million pounds before being loaned back to the south London club. He never started a Premier League game for United.

A short spell on loan at Car-

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Two goals from Wilfred Bony helped Ivory Coast beat Algeria 3-1 on Sunday although they admitted they had been overshadowed by their opponents. “I think we have beaten the best team in the tournament,” said Ivorian coach Herve Renard after victory in Malabo.

Democratic Republic of Congo got four goals in a stunning comeback against Congo in their quarterfinal triumph on Saturday, marking their first win at the finals since 2006.

They have had years of mediocre returns.

They squeezed through the group phase after drawing all three of their matches and only qualified

LONDON - Premier League leaders Chelsea signed Colombia winger Juan Cuadrado from Fiorentina on a fourand-a-half-year deal on Monday with Mohamed Salah moving in the opposite direction. Media reports said Chelsea had paid a fee of around 35 million euros ($39.69 million) for Cuadrado.

Egyptian Salah, who has struggled to establish himself at Chelsea since joining from Swiss club Basel last January, has agreed to join Fiorentina on loan.

Cuadrado had been on Chelsea’s radar for some time and the deal was finalised after the Stamford Bridge outfit sold Germany winger Andre Schuerrle to Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg earlier as the transfer deadline loomed. “I am very happy and thankful for this opportunity I’ve been given,” the 26-year-old told the club’s website (www.chelseafc.com) “This is a great club and honestly it is like a dream to join the Chelsea family and to know that the manager believes in me. “I’m happy. It’s really going to

for the tournament as the best third placed side.

But their recent resume does include a sensational 4-3 win in Abidjan in October over the Ivorians in the qualifiers which will serve as a reminder of their ability to produce shock results. (rtr)

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be great to work with one of the best coaches in the world.”

Cuadrado has been a key figure for Fiorentina since joining from Italian rivals Udinese in 2012 and his departure will be a blow to their hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League as he leaves them in sixth spot.

The signing of 22-year-old Salah will soften the blow, especially if he can rediscover the form that prompted Chelsea to splash out 11 million pounds for his services.

Comfortable on either flank, or behind a striker, Cuadrado wil offer Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho more attacking options as the season reaches a critical phase. Chelsea are five points clear in the Premier League, in the

League Cup final against Tottenham Hotspur next month and have a Champions League last 16 tie against Paris St Germain.

Cuadrado scored 26 goals in 106 appearances for Fiorentina and has 37 caps for Colombia, having helped them to the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Cup. (rtr)

AP Photo/Fabio Muzzi, file

In this Jan. 25, 2015 Fiorentina’s midfielder Juan Cuadrado kicks the ball during a serie A soccer match between Fiorentina and Roma in Florence, Italy.

Japan fire head coach Aguirre TOKYO - The Japan Football Association (JFA) on Tuesday terminated the contract of coach Javier Aguirre due to the Mexican’s involvement in an ongoing matchfixing investigation. Aguirre has denied any wrongdoing after being named in a Spanish anti-corruption investigation and the JFA had stood by him during last

REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

Ghana’s Mubarak Wakaso (L) challenges Thuso Phala of South Africa during their Group C soccer match of the 2015 African Cup of Nations in Mongomo, January 27, 2015.

Palace resign Zaha and bring in South Korean Lee diff City last season was not particularly successful, but Zaha has impressed while on loan at Palace this season, making nine league appearances. Zaha said he was pleased to be back.

“I wasn’t getting much game time at Manchester United so took the opportunity of coming back on loan this season and to now have the chance to make the

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Cuadrado in, Schuerrle out at Chelsea

BATA, Equatorial Guinea- Neighbours Ghana and Ivory Coast start as overwhelming favourites to set up a mouthwatering African Nations Cup final but must first get past semi-final opponents who have exceeded expectations. Ivory Coast take on Democratic Republic of Congo in the first semi in Bata on Wednesday, followed a day later by Ghana’s meeting with hosts Equatorial Guinea in Malabo.

Ghana and the Ivorians boast heavyweight squads, in terms of experience, ability and profile, plus a pedigree that makes them hot favourites for Sunday’s final in Bata. It is Ghana’s fifth successive appearance in the last four while the Ivorians have reached the semi-finals four times in the last six tournaments.

But both ties are likely to be anything but routine assignments. Equatorial Guinea have taken a fairytale route to the last four, albeit with the assistance of some soft penalties which has taken some of the shine off their performance.

But the wonder free kick from Javier Balboa that won them a controversial quarter-final in extra time over Tunisia on Saturday served as a reminder of their potential, particularly with the home crowd behind them.

It will be the first game for Equatorial Guinea in their capital after four successive matches in Bata where the stadium has a larger capacity and generates more of the intense atmosphere that has helped the home team ride a wave of home support.

Opponents Ghana were dev-

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move permanent and come home to Selhurst Park is something I’m delighted about,” he said.

Lee signed a deal through June 2018, the club said, with Scottish midfielder Barry Bannan moving to Bolton on loan until the end of the season.

Lee joined Bolton in 2009 from FC Seoul and scored 20 goals in 195 appearances for the

now Championship side, who were relegated from the Premier League in 2012.

He played for South Korea in the opening game of the Asian Cup last month but fractured his shin in the 1-0 win over Oman and missed his country’s run to the final, where they were beaten by hosts Australia in extra time on Saturday. (rtr)

month’s Asian Cup. But on Tuesday, in a news conference broadcast live on Japanese television, JFA chief Kuniya Daini said they had decided to part ways with the Mexican, fearing any court case could harm Japan’s campaign to qualify for the next World Cup. “At this point we have decided that we will cancel Aguirre’s contract,” Daini said.

“First of all we’d like to convey to coach Aguirre that the reason for the cancellation is that we want to avoid any influence to the national team on their preparation for World

Cup and we want to avoid those risks. “There is a possibility that he will be indicted and then a court case could begin.”

Spain’s anti-corruption prosecutor has been named Aguirre in a probe into Real Zaragoza’s 2-1 win at Levante on the final day of the 2010-11 La Liga campaign where

Aguirre’s Zaragoza side won to avoid relegation. The prosecutor alleged the Levante players were paid a total of 965,000 (S$1.49 million) to deliberately lose the game.

Former Mexico and Atletico Madrid manager Aguirre has long denied any involvement in matchfixing and has refused to elaborate on

his role while Japan were competing in the Asian Cup in Australia.

Japan won the Asian Cup four years ago but suffered a shock loss on penalties to United Arab Emirates in the quarter-finals last month. Australia went on to win the title, beating South Korea in the final. (rtr)

Sociedad’s Vela has surgery on right knee, out for 2 months

SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain — Real Sociedad says Mexico forward Carlos Vela is expected to be sidelined for at least two months after surgery on his right knee.

The Spanish club says Vela underwent the operation on Monday to repair “a tear in the meniscus of his right knee.”

It adds that in normal cases, eight weeks of rehabilitation are needed for a player to return to the pitch.

Vela hurt his leg during Saturday’s 4-1 loss at Real Madrid, where he had to be substituted.

Sociedad is in 13th place of the 20-team league. Vela is coach David Moyes’ first-choice attacking player. (ap)

REUTERS/Yuya Shino/Files

Japan’s national soccer team head coach Javier Aguirre of Mexico walks into a news conference at the Japan Football Association headquarters in Tokyo in this December 27, 2014 file photograph.

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Ghana and Ivory Coast eye final showdown astating in beating Guinea 3-0 in their quarter-final on Sunday with cleverly created goals but did see captain Asamoah Gyan hurt in a disgraceful tackle right at the end of the game. He is now doubtful for Thursday’s match.

LONDON - Crystal Palace snapped up South Korean attacking midfielder Lee Chung-yong and re-signed Manchester United winger Wilfried Zaha on a fiveyear deal before the transfer window closed on Monday. Lee joined from English second tier side Bolton Wanderers for an undisclosed fee, while 22-yearold Zaha made his temporary

move permanent by signing a five-year-deal.

Zaha was the last signing of the Alex Ferguson era, joining United from Palace in January 2013 for a reported 15 million pounds before being loaned back to the south London club. He never started a Premier League game for United.

A short spell on loan at Car-

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Two goals from Wilfred Bony helped Ivory Coast beat Algeria 3-1 on Sunday although they admitted they had been overshadowed by their opponents. “I think we have beaten the best team in the tournament,” said Ivorian coach Herve Renard after victory in Malabo.

Democratic Republic of Congo got four goals in a stunning comeback against Congo in their quarterfinal triumph on Saturday, marking their first win at the finals since 2006.

They have had years of mediocre returns.

They squeezed through the group phase after drawing all three of their matches and only qualified

LONDON - Premier League leaders Chelsea signed Colombia winger Juan Cuadrado from Fiorentina on a fourand-a-half-year deal on Monday with Mohamed Salah moving in the opposite direction. Media reports said Chelsea had paid a fee of around 35 million euros ($39.69 million) for Cuadrado.

Egyptian Salah, who has struggled to establish himself at Chelsea since joining from Swiss club Basel last January, has agreed to join Fiorentina on loan.

Cuadrado had been on Chelsea’s radar for some time and the deal was finalised after the Stamford Bridge outfit sold Germany winger Andre Schuerrle to Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg earlier as the transfer deadline loomed. “I am very happy and thankful for this opportunity I’ve been given,” the 26-year-old told the club’s website (www.chelseafc.com) “This is a great club and honestly it is like a dream to join the Chelsea family and to know that the manager believes in me. “I’m happy. It’s really going to

for the tournament as the best third placed side.

But their recent resume does include a sensational 4-3 win in Abidjan in October over the Ivorians in the qualifiers which will serve as a reminder of their ability to produce shock results. (rtr)

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be great to work with one of the best coaches in the world.”

Cuadrado has been a key figure for Fiorentina since joining from Italian rivals Udinese in 2012 and his departure will be a blow to their hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League as he leaves them in sixth spot.

The signing of 22-year-old Salah will soften the blow, especially if he can rediscover the form that prompted Chelsea to splash out 11 million pounds for his services.

Comfortable on either flank, or behind a striker, Cuadrado wil offer Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho more attacking options as the season reaches a critical phase. Chelsea are five points clear in the Premier League, in the

League Cup final against Tottenham Hotspur next month and have a Champions League last 16 tie against Paris St Germain.

Cuadrado scored 26 goals in 106 appearances for Fiorentina and has 37 caps for Colombia, having helped them to the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Cup. (rtr)

AP Photo/Fabio Muzzi, file

In this Jan. 25, 2015 Fiorentina’s midfielder Juan Cuadrado kicks the ball during a serie A soccer match between Fiorentina and Roma in Florence, Italy.

Japan fire head coach Aguirre TOKYO - The Japan Football Association (JFA) on Tuesday terminated the contract of coach Javier Aguirre due to the Mexican’s involvement in an ongoing matchfixing investigation. Aguirre has denied any wrongdoing after being named in a Spanish anti-corruption investigation and the JFA had stood by him during last

REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

Ghana’s Mubarak Wakaso (L) challenges Thuso Phala of South Africa during their Group C soccer match of the 2015 African Cup of Nations in Mongomo, January 27, 2015.

Palace resign Zaha and bring in South Korean Lee diff City last season was not particularly successful, but Zaha has impressed while on loan at Palace this season, making nine league appearances. Zaha said he was pleased to be back.

“I wasn’t getting much game time at Manchester United so took the opportunity of coming back on loan this season and to now have the chance to make the

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Cuadrado in, Schuerrle out at Chelsea

BATA, Equatorial Guinea- Neighbours Ghana and Ivory Coast start as overwhelming favourites to set up a mouthwatering African Nations Cup final but must first get past semi-final opponents who have exceeded expectations. Ivory Coast take on Democratic Republic of Congo in the first semi in Bata on Wednesday, followed a day later by Ghana’s meeting with hosts Equatorial Guinea in Malabo.

Ghana and the Ivorians boast heavyweight squads, in terms of experience, ability and profile, plus a pedigree that makes them hot favourites for Sunday’s final in Bata. It is Ghana’s fifth successive appearance in the last four while the Ivorians have reached the semi-finals four times in the last six tournaments.

But both ties are likely to be anything but routine assignments. Equatorial Guinea have taken a fairytale route to the last four, albeit with the assistance of some soft penalties which has taken some of the shine off their performance.

But the wonder free kick from Javier Balboa that won them a controversial quarter-final in extra time over Tunisia on Saturday served as a reminder of their potential, particularly with the home crowd behind them.

It will be the first game for Equatorial Guinea in their capital after four successive matches in Bata where the stadium has a larger capacity and generates more of the intense atmosphere that has helped the home team ride a wave of home support.

Opponents Ghana were dev-

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move permanent and come home to Selhurst Park is something I’m delighted about,” he said.

Lee signed a deal through June 2018, the club said, with Scottish midfielder Barry Bannan moving to Bolton on loan until the end of the season.

Lee joined Bolton in 2009 from FC Seoul and scored 20 goals in 195 appearances for the

now Championship side, who were relegated from the Premier League in 2012.

He played for South Korea in the opening game of the Asian Cup last month but fractured his shin in the 1-0 win over Oman and missed his country’s run to the final, where they were beaten by hosts Australia in extra time on Saturday. (rtr)

month’s Asian Cup. But on Tuesday, in a news conference broadcast live on Japanese television, JFA chief Kuniya Daini said they had decided to part ways with the Mexican, fearing any court case could harm Japan’s campaign to qualify for the next World Cup. “At this point we have decided that we will cancel Aguirre’s contract,” Daini said.

“First of all we’d like to convey to coach Aguirre that the reason for the cancellation is that we want to avoid any influence to the national team on their preparation for World

Cup and we want to avoid those risks. “There is a possibility that he will be indicted and then a court case could begin.”

Spain’s anti-corruption prosecutor has been named Aguirre in a probe into Real Zaragoza’s 2-1 win at Levante on the final day of the 2010-11 La Liga campaign where

Aguirre’s Zaragoza side won to avoid relegation. The prosecutor alleged the Levante players were paid a total of 965,000 (S$1.49 million) to deliberately lose the game.

Former Mexico and Atletico Madrid manager Aguirre has long denied any involvement in matchfixing and has refused to elaborate on

his role while Japan were competing in the Asian Cup in Australia.

Japan won the Asian Cup four years ago but suffered a shock loss on penalties to United Arab Emirates in the quarter-finals last month. Australia went on to win the title, beating South Korea in the final. (rtr)

Sociedad’s Vela has surgery on right knee, out for 2 months

SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain — Real Sociedad says Mexico forward Carlos Vela is expected to be sidelined for at least two months after surgery on his right knee.

The Spanish club says Vela underwent the operation on Monday to repair “a tear in the meniscus of his right knee.”

It adds that in normal cases, eight weeks of rehabilitation are needed for a player to return to the pitch.

Vela hurt his leg during Saturday’s 4-1 loss at Real Madrid, where he had to be substituted.

Sociedad is in 13th place of the 20-team league. Vela is coach David Moyes’ first-choice attacking player. (ap)

REUTERS/Yuya Shino/Files

Japan’s national soccer team head coach Javier Aguirre of Mexico walks into a news conference at the Japan Football Association headquarters in Tokyo in this December 27, 2014 file photograph.

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Pelicans end Hawks’ 19-game winning streak, 115-100

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NEW ORLEANS — The Atlanta Hawks’ club-record 19-game winning streak was broken Monday in a 115-100 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans. Anthony Davis had 29 points and 13 rebounds to help New Orleans win for the sixth time in seven games, a stint which includes victories over several contending squads including Dallas and the Los Angeles Clippers.

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McLaren Formula One racing driver Jenson Button of Britain sits in his car as he is pushed by members of his team during pre-season testing at the Jerez racetrack in southern Spain February 2, 2015.

Jeff Teague scored 21 for Atlanta, but the Hawks fell behind by double digits in the first quarter and failed to even tie it. Eric Gordon scored 20 points for New Orleans, while Tyreke Evans scored 15 points and tied a season high with 12 assists for the fourth time in five games.

Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving scored 24 points, and LeBron James added 18 points and 11 assists as the Cavaliers staggered to their 11th straight win 97-84.

The winning streak is Cleveland’s longest since reeling off 13 in a row — a franchise record — in 2010, the last season of James’ first stint with the club. The Cavs had trouble putting away the young

Philadelphia Sixers, who did all they could to stay close but don’t have the firepower to keep up with Irving, James and one of the NBA’s hottest teams.

At Oklahoma City, Russell Westbrook’s second triple-double of the season and 10th of his career helped the Thunder defeat the Orlando Magic 104-97 without the injured Kevin Durant. Westbrook, an AllStar point guard, had 25 points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds. Durant sat out with a sprained big toe on his left foot.

Victor Oladipo scored 22 points and Nikola Vucevic scored 20 points for the Magic, who lost their ninth straight. The New Orleans Hornets

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Button claims McLaren-Honda breakthrough

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Jenson Button insists there is no alarm at McLaren’s troubled start to Formula 1 testing with Honda, claiming it made a late breakthrough with its reliability dramas on Monday. The Briton and his team-mate Fernando Alonso have managed to complete just six laps each over the first two days of Jerez running thanks to problems with the new Honda F1 engine.

Sensor issues on the first day for Alonso were followed by an unspecified glitch with a power unit component when Button took over for Monday.

But McLaren was encouraged that Button was able to complete a trouble free lap just before the session finished - lifting hopes of a better day on Tuesday. “It’s not been the easiest start to the season, but as we know it’s a very complicated power unit,” Button said.

“We will get our heads around it and, in terms of the problems today, we did our last run in the wet to understand the issue and we’re hoping for a lot more productive

day three and four.”

McLaren’s best lap time and lap number tally is worse than Red Bull managed on the second day of its difficult first test with Renault’s V6 turbo 12 months ago.

But Button says he still takes comfort from how Red Bull managed to recover and take an on-theroad podium in last year’s Australian Grand Prix before Daniel Ricciardo’s disqualification. “You look at where the Red Bull was in the first couple of tests last year and even the last one in Bahrain, they finished second [before disqualification] at the first grand prix,” he said.

“We always knew the first test was going to be difficult, it always is. “It’s not as straightforward as it used to be with sticking an engine straight into the car and trying to pound round.

It’s a very complex system now.

“We’ve had a few things that we’ve been able to solve now.

And tomorrow we’ll see where we stand.” (net)

AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

New Orleans Pelicans guard Quincy Pondexter (20) blocks a shot as Atlanta Hawks guard Dennis Schroder drives to the basket in the second half of an NBA basketball game in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. The Pelicans won 115-100.

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Hostage killings highlight threat, meager options for Japan

Israeli prime minister calls for scrapping UN Gaza war probe

TOKYO — The killing of two Japanese taken hostage by the Islamic State group has violently driven home the high stakes Japan faces and limited options it can muster in such circumstances. It also offers a glimpse into how Japan is struggling to handle the rising menace of terrorism.

Until this crisis, Japan had not become directly embroiled in the fight against the militants, who now control about a third of both Syria and neighboring Iraq in a self-declared caliphate. Tokyo’s backing for U.S.-led air strikes against the Islamic State group is confined to financial and humanitarian aid for refugees and other non-military support for countries affected by the conflict.

That proved no hindrance for the jihadis, and Japan is re-examining its response to the threat, both abroad and at home, mindful also of Tokyo’s preparations for the 2020 Olympic Games. Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday that the government convened a meeting on counterterrorism to review the situation.

“During the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, there will be many visitors from overseas and needless to say, we will implement fullscale measures to prepare,” Suga.

Japan’s options for trying to free the hostages were limited. Tokyo lacks a strong diplomatic presence in the region and has a very small corps of Arab experts — only about 30 people in this case, the foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, told parliament. It is unclear whether paying ransom would have been an option. Moreover, the military is confined by the constitution, drafted by U.S. occupying forces after World War II, to a strictly self-defense role and would be unable to stage a rescue attempt.

A video over the weekend showing the beheading of journalist Kenji Goto, purportedly from the Islamic State militants, carried chilling threats to single out Japanese anywhere as targets.

Addressing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a man resembling a militant seen in other beheading videos by the Islamic State group says, “because of your reckless decision to take part in an unwinnable war, this knife will not only slaughter Kenji, but will also carry on and cause carnage wherever your people are found. So let the nightmare for Japan begin.”

Abe has made security a top priority of his administration. He ordered greater vigilance at airports and at Japanese facilities overseas, such as embassies and schools. The government already was considering sending troops for overseas rescues. (ap)

The U.N. commission was due to issue its report next month.

Israel did not cooperate with it, saying it was hostile to Israel and that its conclusions were known in advance.

The summer’s war in Gaza, the third between Israel and Hamas since the group seized the seaside territory, killed more than 2,200 Palestinians and 72 people on the Israeli side. At least 1,483 Palestinian civilians were killed in the war — 66 percent of the overall death toll — according to preliminary United Nations figures.

The U.N. commission chief, Canadian law professor William Schabas, was reported earlier Tuesday to be stepping down as head of the inquiry. Schabas had been outspoken in his criticism

Jordanians carry banners and light candles during a candle vigil for Jordanians in support for Japan, in front of the Japanese embassy, in Amman, Jordan, Monday, Feb. 2, 2015.

AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015.

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for scrapping a U.N. commission tasked with investigating potential war crimes committed last summer in Gaza after reports emerged that its chief resigned amid accusations he was biased against Israel. Netanyahu said the commission, set up by the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council, was an “anti-Israeli body” that has proved it has nothing to do with human rights. of Israel and previously offered consultancy services to the Palestinians Liberation Organization.

After Schabas’ appointment last year, he said he wouldn’t let his past criticism of Israeli leaders affect his ability to carry out the investigation. Officials in Geneva could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday. Netanyahu has accused the U.N. commission of unfairly targeting Israel and ignoring abuses elsewhere.

“This is the same council that in 2014 made more decisions against Israel than against Iran, Syria and North Korea combined,” Netanyahu said, adding that Gaza’s Hamas rulers “need to be investigated, not Israel.”

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he didn’t expect

Schabas’ resignation to affect the final report but credited Israeli diplomacy efforts nonetheless with bringing about the resignation.

“Even the biggest hypocrites in the international bodies cannot ignore that having Shabbas investigate Israel is like having Cain investigate who murdered Abel,” Lieberman added. Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi said the Israeli officials remarks were “typical Israeli tactics.”

“They try to intimidate, they try to slander, they try to discredit, they make it extremely difficult for anybody to take any position that would hold Israel accountable or investigating Israeli violations or Israeli war crimes,” she said. (ap)

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BUSINESS Energy firms boosted in Asia as oil prices rise

However, Seoul dipped 0.55 HONG KONG - Oil prices rose again on Tuesday, extending a recent rally and providing support to regional energy stocks, while Wall Street provided a strong lead despite a weak percent, while Tokyo eased 0.10 percent as the yen strengthened manufacturing reading.

The euro held its own in early trade as investors keep tabs on a tour of Europe by Greece’s new leaders aimed at ramping up support for a renegotiation of its massive bailout.

Crude enjoyed some muchneeded buying after data showed the recent slump in prices has led to a decline in the number of rigs drilling.

US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for March delivery rose 36 cents to $49.93 while Brent crude for March rose 18 cents to $54.93.

The rises will come as welcome relief for markets after the black gold slumped more than 50 percent from its June 2014 peak owing to a global glut and a strong dollar.

Energy firms were the main winners from the rises. Hong Konglisted Sinopec added 1.65 percent and CNOOC gained 3.50 percent, while in Sydney Woodside added 2.35 percent and Santos surged 3.75 percent. Inpex in Tokyo was 5.26 percent higher.

“There’s a sense of security expanding among investors” as oil

climbs, Toshihiko Matsuno, chief strategist at SMBC Friend Securities Co. in Tokyo, told Bloomberg News.

“The rise in prices has helped doubts about the global economic slowdown recede, and eased worry over default risk and downgrade risks for both countries and companies.”

Regional stock markets were broadly higher. Shanghai rose 1.12 percent, Hong Kong added 0.24 percent and Sydney put on 0.23 percent, while Taipei gained 0.53 percent.

against the dollar.

The crude rally also lent support to Wall Street, where investors were able to brush off data indicating the US manufacturing sector slowed in January. While shares rose, there are fears that weakness in China, Japan and Europe is acting as a weight on the US economy, which also saw a sharp slowdown in growth at the end of last year.

The Dow rallied 1.14 percent, the S&P 500 jumped 1.30 percent and the Nasdaq added 0.89 percent.

The euro bought $1.1347 and 133.09 yen against $1.1343 and

SYDNEY — Australia’s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low of 2.25 percent on Tuesday in a bid to jolt an economy weighed down by falling commodity prices.

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s quarter percentage point rate cut at a monthly board meeting was its first since August 2013. It came as a surprise to many economists, who expected the bank to hold off on lowering the rate until later in the year. Subdued inflation, however, has given the central bank more scope to stimulate Australia’s $1 trillion economy.

The news shook the Australian dollar which dropped 1.8 percent 76.5 cents. The stock market was

boosted, with the S&P/ASX 200 up 1.5 percent.

Resource-rich Australia managed to avoid a recession during the global financial crisis thanks to a decade-long mining boom. But with the economy weakening in China, which is Australia’s largest export market, prices for commodities such as iron ore and coal have dropped.

Australia’s move follows monetary easing steps by other central banks though is modest compared with the unprecedented stimulus programs that Japan and Europe have embarked on to revive long stagnant economies.

In a statement, the central bank’s governor Glenn Stevens said com-

modity prices have continued to decline, “in some cases sharply,” particularly oil.

The bank also said that while the U.S. economy had strengthened, European and Japanese economies were weaker than expected, and forecasts for global growth this year were moderate.

“In Australia the available information suggests that growth is continuing at a below-trend pace, with domestic demand growth overall quite weak,” Stevens said. The fall in oil prices would offer “significant support” to consumer spending but that is partly offset by weakening growth in incomes, he said.

“The economy is likely to be operating with a degree of spare

capacity for some time yet,” he said.

Treasurer Joe Hockey dubbed the rate cut good news that would bolster the country’s economy.

“It is going to help to create more jobs because business is going to be able to pay less for their debt, as consumers should pay less for their debt and as people with a mortgage should pay less for their debt,” he told reporters in Canberra, the nation’s capital.

Stevens has repeatedly stressed that the Australian dollar is too high, despite the currency plummeting in recent weeks to around 77 U.S. cents, the lowest level since the global financial crisis. The Australian dollar reached an all-time high

133.43 yen.

Greece’s new far-left government is looking for support from European governments and investors in its bid to renegotiate its 240billion-euro bailout.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited Cyprus in his first foreign trip since his Syriza party swept to power last month, while Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis was in London as part of a diplomatic drive.

After meeting Varoufakis in London, his British counterpart George Osborne warned: “It’s clear that the standoff between Greece and the eurozone is fast becoming the biggest risk to the global economy.” (afp)

Australia cuts interest rate to record low 2.25 percent

of $1.10 in 2011.

In his statement Tuesday, Stevens acknowledged the Australian dollar had declined noticeably, but said it remains above most estimates of its fundamental value. “A lower exchange rate is likely to be needed to achieve balanced growth in the economy,” he said.

Spiros Papadopoulos, senior economist at National Australia Bank, suspects the bank will cut the rate again later this year, though not at its next meeting.

“The combination of weak growth, further increases in unemployment and a very subdued inflation outlook has really given them that room to maneuver,” he said. (ap)

AP Photo/Rick Rycroft

A woman walks past the Reserve Bank of Australia in Sydney, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015. Australia’s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low of 2.25 percent on Tuesday in a bid to jolt an economy weighed down by falling commodity prices.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

President to announce decision on police chief

JAKARTA - President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo will soon announce a decision regarding the sole police chief candidate Budi Gunawan (BG) who has been named a suspect in a bribery case by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).”The president is facing a situation wherein the police chief candidate has been approved by the Parliament, but, in reality, he has been named a suspect. It is not easy to find a solution to the dilemma. It will better if Mr BG withdraws. If not, this dilemma has to be solved. At the end, the president must take a decision,” Minister/ State Secretary Pratikno stated on Tuesday.

He said President Jokowi is basically following the existing legal process and hopes that every party will also support the process.

President Jokowi recently post-

poned the induction of Commissioner General BG as the new national police chief after he was named a suspect by the KPK, although the parliament has approved

BG’s candidacy.

He later sought views of various prominent figures including former president B.J. Habibie and retired general Prabowo Subianto

regarding the polemic on the appointment of BG as the sole police chief candidate and the ongoing dispute between the KPK and the National Police.

The head of state set up a ninemember Independent Consultative Team for advice regarding the police chief issue and the ongoing conflict between the police and KPK. The team suggested Jokowi to not induct Commissioner General

JAKARTA - Two Australians on death row in Bali will be among the next group of prisoners to be executed in Indonesia, an official said Monday, as Jakarta takes an increasingly hard line against drug traffickers.

Attorney General H.M. Prasetyo did not say when or where Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the leaders of the so-called “Bali Nine” drug-smuggling gang, would be put to death by firing squad, only that “they will be included” in the next batch.

Indonesia last month executed six

drug traffickers including five foreigners, triggering a diplomatic storm as Brazil and the Netherlands -- whose citizens were among those killed -withdrew their ambassadors.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has been a vocal supporter of capital punishment, and had already rejected clemency appeals from Sukumaran and Chan.

The pair were arrested in Bali in 2005 and sentenced to death the following year for attempting to smuggle eight kilograms (18 pounds)

of heroin out of the Indonesian holiday island.

Apart from confirming the men would be in the next group to be executed, the attorney general did not give any further details to reporters, or say who else would be included in the group.

In December Sukumaran lost his appeal for presidential clemency, the last chance by a death row convict to avoid the firing squad.

Chan’s appeal was rejected last month, removing the final hurdle for

Jakarta to push ahead with executing the pair. Authorities have insisted they be put to death together as they committed their crime together.

On Friday they applied for a fresh judicial review of their cases but the attorney general’s office has insisted there are no more legal avenues open to them.

Jakarta said last week it was ready to execute seven foreign drug convicts on death row, including the Australians.

Widodo, known as Jokowi, has

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BG as the new national police chief in order to preserve the institution’s honor.

“The president must assure that any law enforcement official who has been named a suspect must resign or not hold any official post to preserve the honor of the police and the KPK institutions,” Syafii Maarif, the chief of the Independent Consultative Team, recently noted after a meeting with Jokowi. (ant)

Australians among next group to be executed

shocked rights groups with his support for executions, as they had hoped he would take a softer line on capital punishment.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has urged Indonesia to show mercy to the pair.

“We were surprised -- and dismayed -- that Jokowi decided to make the death penalty a signature issue of the early part of his administration,” Phelim Kine, deputy director Asia for Human Rights Watch, told AFP. (afp)

Six more AirAsia crash victims found

JAKARTA - Indonesian divers on Monday found another six victims of the AirAsia plane crash, an official said, taking to 84 the number of bodies retrieved since the accident in late December.

Two bodies were found inside the fuselage of the plane, while another four were located near the wreckage on the bottom of the Java Sea. Another body was located on Sunday as the national search and rescue agency resumed operations.

Divers had taken a two-day break after searching at sea for weeks in poor weather conditions.

The mission is continuing to find the bodies of the remaining 78 people aboard Flight QZ8501, which went down in stormy weather during what was supposed to be a short trip from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.

“Divers will continue to search for more bodies tomorrow,” S.B. Supriyadi, a search and rescue agency official who has been coordinating the operation, told AFP. The Indonesian military, which has provided the bulk of personnel and equipment for the operation, withdrew from the search last week. (afp)

ANTARA FOTO/Sahrul Manda Tikupadang

Indonesian divers on Monday found another six victims of the AirAsia plane crash, an official said, taking to 84 the number of bodies retrieved since the accident in late December.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

International

May, predicted as the peak of dengue fever

Northeast US gets its 2nd major workday snowstorm in a week

BANGLI - The peak of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) transmission during this rainy season is estimated to occur in May. Such prediction is based on the previous year where in the fifth month in 2014 the figure of dengue cases was recorded to reach the highest up to 38 cases. Meanwhile, until the end of January 2015, the number of people in Bangli suffering dengue reached 9 cases.

The fogging is one of the effort to perevent the spread of dengue fever

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The Head of the Bangli Health Agency, Wayan Sudiana, said on Monday (Feb 2) the nine people suffering dengue fever in January scattered in several regions. Six of them were from Bangbang village, Tembuku subdistrict, two people from Blumbang hamlet, Bangli subdistrict and another from Kayuamba, Susut subdistrict.

Those who were contracted by dengue outbreak so far already received treatment at hospital, and some of them had also been declared to recover. Although 9 people were contracted by dengue fever, such amount was still considered normal. “Judging from the chart, there is no prominent case, so that it was not declared as an extraordinary case,” he explained. As previous year, Sudiana predicted the peak of dengue transmission cycle this year would take place in May. He estimated the case to decline in June-July. “Usually in the rainy season or the transitional period, the number of cases will increase,” he added.

To anticipate the outbreak of dengue in Bangli, his party at the Health Agency claimed to have conducted various preventive efforts, including the implementation of fogging at dengue affected region, eradication of mosquito nest and the provision of abate powder. For these programs, this year Bangli allocated a budget worth IDR 104 million, an increase of IDR 40 million from the budget last year.

Meanwhile, based on the data owned by the Bangli Health Agency in 2014, the dengue fever in Bangli reached 255 cases, with details that in January there were 17 cases, February (23 cases), March (32 cases) and April (24 cases). Furthermore, in May it rose to 38 cases, June (34 cases), July (14 cases), August (18 cases), September (10 cases), October (19 cases), November (13 cases) and December (13 cases). (ina)

French citizen hides drug package in helmet DENPASAR - Aside from local residents, foreigners are also alleged to take part in the drug trafficking in Bali. As evidence, the suspect identified as YAN, 43, was arrested on Jalan Pura Banyu Kuning, Padangsambian, West Denpasar, by Denpasar Police Narcotic Unit after taking 2 packages of crystal meth, Friday (Jan 30).

“In terms of its mode, the suspect hiding the crystal meth package in the cork of his helmet can be reasonably suspected if he is an incumbent. It is the new mode committed by the French suspect,” said the Chief of Denpasar Police

Narcotic Unit, Gede Ganefo, Monday (Feb 2).

Based on the result of the interrogation by the officer, the suspect having the address on Jalan Taman Sari, Kerobokan admitted to have been living in Bali for 8 years. The suspect with the profession as a furniture designer was originally married to a woman from Bali. But they decided to separate. “He admitted to have divorced, but we do not dare to ascertain because there is no evidence. He is now living with another woman,” he said.

The suspect YAN was arrested approximately at 8:00 p.m. The

arrest originated from public information if there was a suspicious person at the scene. Police almost missed because when the body and clothing of the suspects were searched, police found no drugs.

But after carefully checked his helmet, in fact, police could find 2 packages of crystal meth weighing 1.37 grams.

“He has prepared a special hole in the cork of his helmet. The crystal meth package was hidden there. All this time, the culprits usually placed the illicit goods in the pocket of pants or shirt, bag or motorcycle. The suspect said if

the package would be given to his friend,” he said.

Dozens secured

A team of the Directorate of Bali Police Narcotics arrested a drug dealer with the initials LF, 30, on Jalan Gunung Agung Gang Bumi Ayu, West Denpasar, Sunday (Feb 1) approximately at 10:00 p.m.

According to a police resource person, the arrest was led by Chief of Operations Unit, the Directorate of Narcotics, Nyoman Sebudi.

The source added that the suspect was arrested in front of the boarding house at the scene. After

searching the suspect’s room, in the left pocket of his pants was found a package of crystal meth, while from the bag was secured 21 packages of crystal meth and 24 ecstasy pills.

A development was also carried out to the residence of the suspect on Jalan Gunung Batur, Denpasar.

Having searched his rented room, on top of wardrobe was found a bag containing two packs of crystal meth of big package and 46 ecstasy pills. In addition, it was also secured a small package of crystal meth in front of his bedroom floor. (kmb36)

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BOSTON — Boston scrambled to dig out Monday from the second major winter storm in a week and delayed a celebratory Super Bowl parade, and forecasters from Philadelphia to Portland, Maine, warned that “flash freezing” could make roads dangerously slippery. Officials said a Massachusetts woman was run over and killed by a snowplow, and New York state police said two people were killed in a multivehicle crash on an interstate highway in Rye.

South Korean army soldiers rappel down during an exercise against a terrorist attack at a training camp in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015.

Officials in Ohio, where the storm hit before slamming into the Northeast, said a Toledo police officer died of an apparent heart attack while shoveling snow in his driveway Sunday. Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins was heavily sedated and in critical condition Monday, a day after he went into cardiac arrest and his SUV crashed into a pole on his way home not long after a news conference.

The snowstorm, which dumped more than 19 inches (48 centimeters) of snow on Chicago, deepened off the southern New England coast, bringing accumulations up to 18 inches (46 centimeters) to the greater Boston area and up to a foot (30 centimeters) of slushy wintry mix to Hartford, Connecticut, Providence, Rhode Island, southern New Hampshire and Vermont — places still reeling from the up to 3 feet (90 centimeters) they got last week.

More than 20 counties in New York state were under a winter

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean soldier was sentenced to death Tuesday for killing five comrades and injuring seven others in a shooting and grenade attack last year, the Defense Ministry said. Shooting rampages by bullied soldiers are not unusual in South Korea, which requires all able-bodied men to serve about two years in the military in the face of threats from North Korea.

The soldier, surnamed Yim, has told investigators that he threw a grenade and opened fire on his colleagues in June after seeing drawings they made of him that he considered insulting. Yim had fled into the forest near the border with North Korea but was captured following a failed suicide attempt.

Yim, who has been identified only by his surname, was sentenced to death in a military court in the eastern Gangwon province, a

A man clears his driveway of snow in Derry, N.H., Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. Southern New Hampshire, which was hit with over two feet of snow last week, is expected to receive as much as another foot and a half in a winter storm that stretches from Michigan to Maine.

AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

S. Korea soldier sentenced to death for killing 5 comrades

Defense Ministry official in Seoul said on condition of anonymity citing department rules. He said Yim can appeal. South Korea has not executed anyone since December 1997, although death sentences are still occasionally issued by courts.

In 2005, a soldier tossed a grenade and opened fire at a front-line army unit in a rampage that killed eight colleagues. He said he was enraged at superiors who had verbally abused him. The soldier was later sentenced to death but hasn’t been executed.

Past rampages have raised questions about the discipline and readiness of South Korea’s military, which faces North Korean troops across the world’s most heavily fortified border. The Korean Peninsula remains in a technical state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. (ap)

storm warning, with up to 16 inches (40 centimeters) forecast for some areas. The National Weather Service issued a “flash freeze” warning for New York City and Long Island. Similar warnings were out for Philadelphia and up the coast to Maine as temperatures dropped, freezing roads already slick with snow and slush.

Rush-hour commuters in New York City were stranded on a packed subway train that lost power for 2½ hours Monday before it could be towed to a station. Five other trains were stuck behind it.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh canceled school for a second day and urged drivers to stay off the roads so workers could clear away snow for a downtown parade honoring the New England Patriots for their fourth Super Bowl win.

The parade had been set for Tuesday morning, but late Monday, Walsh announced that it would be postponed until Wednesday morn-

ing to buy the city some time.

The storm delayed two of the nation’s biggest court cases — the murder trial of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez and jury selection in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Testimony was to resume Tuesday in the Hernandez trial. But federal court officials in Boston, who follow the city’s school closure schedule, said the Tsarnaev proceedings would be delayed a second day.

Monday was also Groundhog Day. The handlers of Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, said the furry rodent forecast six more weeks of winter. Members of the top hatwearing Inner Circle announced the “prediction” Monday morning.

Legend has it that if Phil sees his shadow on Feb. 2, winter will last another six weeks. If not, spring comes early. (ap)

AP Photo/Charles Krupa

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Technology

Tech firms hint at more restraint

SAN FRANCISCO — Technology’s big-spending trio of Google, Facebook, and Amazon. com appear to be tightening their belts — at least a notch — in a concession to cost-conscious investors and a strong dollar that’s taking a big bite out of their revenue.

Hints of restraint were sprinkled throughout the companies’ latest quarterly reports released last week. Expenses at all three are still expected to rise faster than revenue this year, but Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Amazon. com Inc. signaled that spending increases might not be as dramatic as expected. The message boosted all of their stocks, which had been in Wall Street’s penalty box for the companies’ free-spending ways.

The shift can be traced to economic turmoil in Europe and Asia that has caused the dollar’s value to rise against many other currencies, said BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis. Revenue coming in from overseas will translate into fewer dollars — potentially chopping about 4 percent off of 2015 revenue compared with 2014, Gillis estimates.

“That’s a significant hit,” said Gillis. “They all have massive opportunities ahead that they want to pursue, but they are also going out of their way to sound more prudent.”

Amazon’s moderation was the most obvious: the e-commerce company’s fourth-quarter operating expenses rose at a slower pace than analysts had anticipated. That delighted investors who have become increasingly frustrated with recurring losses driven by CEO Jeff Bezos’ prolific spending on data centers, distribution centers, gadgets and drones.

Amazon shares, which had hit a 52-week low after the company’s prior earnings report in October, spiked nearly 14 percent on the fourth-quarter results.

“It looks like Amazon does actually care about its stock and profits,” Macquarie Securities analyst Ben Schachter wrote in a research note. Amazon earned

$214 million in the fourth quarter.

The change was more about tone than the actual numbers released by Facebook and Google, since spending at both companies still accelerated in the fourth quarter. Investors initially seemed spooked but settled down after reassuring remarks from Facebook and Google executives. Since their last quarterly earnings reports in October, Google’s shares had fallen 4 percent and Facebook’s shares slipped 6 percent. But the day after announcing earnings last week, Google shares rose nearly 5 percent and Facebook climbed 2 percent.

Google Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette stressed that the search giant’s expenses included $300 million in one-time accounting items and emphasized the company’s commitment to finding “a healthy balance between growth and discipline.” That balancing act prompted the company to recently suspend consumer sales of Google Glass, its Internetconnected eyewear, in an effort to design a version more likely to appeal to customers. Without providing specifics, Pichette promised Google will cancel other projects that “don’t have the impact we had hoped for.”

Meanwhile, Facebook revised its 2015 budget. The social networking leader’s costs may increase by as much as 70 percent this year, down from a previous ceiling of 75 percent, according to Chief Financial Officer David Wehner.

Google, Facebook and Amazon all spend heavily in effort to maintain the competitive advantages they built on desktop and laptop computers as tech usage now tilts toward smartphones and tablets.

The companies also splurge on expensive experiments that may never pay off but that they view as valuable research.

Google plows money into a wide range of projects such as driverless cars, life-like robots, intelligent appliances, Internetbeaming balloons and satellites and even a quest to discover the Fountain of Youth. CEO Larry Page justifies these “moonshots” by pointing to hugely successful products such as Google’s Android operating system, Chrome browser and YouTube video sites that were once viewed as ill-advised investments.

Facebook has been expanding into virtual reality and mobile messaging. Amazon.com is developing a fleet of drones to deliver packages to customers, creating its own original television shows, while also dabbling in a variety of gadgets such as the FireStick and Fire phone aimed at making it easier for people to buy goods from its website.

Executives from all three companies acknowledge some of these projects are bound to fail, but some will be so successful that they will more than offset losses stemming from the flops.

“Bold bets...pay for a lot of failures,” Bezos said during a technology conference in December. “I’ve made billions of dollars of failures at Amazon.com.”

That’s the kind of talk that most investors would prefer not to hear, of course. “There is this group thinking where everyone is saying, ‘If you aren’t failing, you aren’t trying hard enough,’” Macquarie’s Schachter said in an interview.

“Obviously, there is a lot of truth to some of these things, but from an investor point of view, it can be frustrating.” (ap)

NEW YORK - Tablet sales cooled dramatically in 2014 from the red-hot growth pace a year earlier, surveys showed Monday. Research firm IDC said global tablet sales for the full year rose just 4.4 percent for the year to 229.6 million units, after a jump of more than 50 percent in 2013.

After the euphoria around tablets in 2013, the market has slowed because consumers are keeping their devices longer and turning in some cases to large “phablet” smartphones or new

“ultramobile” PCs. The fourth quarter saw the first year-over-year decline in sales since the first iPads were released in 2010, according to IDC. Overall sales dipped 3.2 percent in the key holiday quarter compared to a year earlier to 76.1 million units.

A separate survey by Strategy Analytics said quarterly tablet sales hit 78.3 million, a slim gain of one percent.

“The iPhone 6 products are putting pressure on the iPad Mini and the continued success of the Mac could be inhibiting some iPad

Air 2 growth,” said Eric Smith, analyst at Strategy Analytics.

But IDC said the market could pick up again this year. “Despite an apparent slowdown of the market, we maintain our forecast about tablet growth in 2015,” said Jean Philippe Bouchard, an IDC analyst.

“Microsoft’s new OS, a general shift toward larger screen form factor and productivity focused solutions, and technology innovations such as gesture interface that could be introduced in tablets will help the market maintain positive

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

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On Menjangan Island

Resort development plan reaps complain

SINGARAJA - The concerns on the reduction in revenue faced by residents that manage boat rental due to the presence of the resort development plan on Menjangan Island received complaints from tourism actors doubling as residents of Pejarakan and Sumberklampok village. Allegedly due to their revenue opportunities are oppressed, local residents began to speak up against the resort development plan.

Several residents revealed the number of visiting guests that would hire boat services reduced because supposedly they would immediately stay at the resort when it would be established on the island. Automatically it would reduce their income for supporting daily needs considering most people relied on their livelihood by providing transport services for travelers. “This can affect the income of our residents. Moreover, quite a lot of local people are working here as boat driver in the area Labuanlalang and Banyuwedang. Frankly speaking, we are confused about what to do later,” said Deputy Chief of Pejarakan Tourism Awareness Community (Pokmasta), Ketut Danu.

Allegedly the headman of Sumberklampok and Pejarakan did not make socialization to their residents before deciding the deal of support to investors. Residents began furious even though the PT PTP already promised to provide employment opportunities for 70 percent to local residents. On the other hand, location of the resort development was alleged to disturb the sacred area of the Agung Pingit Klenting Sari temple precisely situated on Menjangan Island. “Residents are still collecting

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Tablet sales show more signs of cooling growth in 2015.”

Apple remained the top seller in the quarter with a market share of 28.1 percent, according to IDC, and 27 percent according to Strategy Analytics, even though iPad sales were down 18 percent.

Samsung was the number two seller with a 14.5 percent share, IDC said.

The IDC report said China’s Lenovo was third with a 4.8 percent share and Taiwan’s Asus fourth with 4.0 percent.

According to IDC, Amazon -- which does not release precise

tablet sales figures -- was in fifth place with a 2.3 percent share, but sales of its Kindle Fire tablets slid 70 percent from a year earlier in the past quarter to 1.7 million units.

This photo combo of images shows the Amazon, Google and Facebook logos. Technology’s big-spending trio of Google, Facebook and Amazon.com appear to be tightening their belts a notch in a concession to costconscious investors and a strong dollar that’s biting into some of their revenue. (afp)

an action of rejection. It is meant to maintain the temple sanctity on the island. We do not want to be tempted by the promise of job offers to local residents,” he added.

Similar rejection was also revealed by Abdul Karim Abraham, a resident of Pejarakan who hoped this issue should not be protracted. His party suspected the resort construction plan would take advantage of one of the ten hectares of utilization zone on Menjangan Island. The investment value was estimated to reach IDR 200 billion, and the number of rooms reached 100 units.

The condition got special attention considering the investors would not be easy to let their capital go for the hotel construction. “From the design at hand, the resort will be built on the island by using the utilization zone.

But we want it can be returned into jungle zone so that it will not be exploited,” said Abraham.

On the other hand, the headman of Pejarakan, Made Astawa, justified the resort development plan on the Menjangan Island. It was based on prior coordination between the Pejarakan and Sumberklampok village. “We’ve made coordination previously. There is a special study by the West Bali

IBP/Dewa Kusuma

Tourists visited Menjangan Island, recently. The concerns on the reduction in revenue faced by residents that manage boat rental due to the presence of the resort development plan on Menjangan Island received complaints from tourism actors doubling as residents of Pejarakan and Sumberklampok village.

National Park (TNBB) and Ministry of Forestry if it belonged to utilization zone. It was divided into cultural zone, religious zone and utilization zone. Our support does not violate the law. This includes 70 percent job opportunity for our residents in the resort,” said Astawa.

It was affirmed by the Head of Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Nyoman Sutrisna, regarding the problem of Menjangan

Island faced by tourism players from the surrounding community.

Management of the Menjangan Island was not the authority of Buleleng government, while it was the authority of the TNBB or the Ministry of Forestry. Although there was a Law No.1/2014 on the management of coastal territory and small islands, his party could not contribute in it. “The issue on the resort development plan on

Silversmithing develops at West Seraya AMLAPURA - Lately silversmithing developed rapidly at West Seraya village, Karangasem. A number of artisans who had previously opened a business at Celuk, Gianyar, or just became a laborer in the business of silver in Gianyar, then returned home to Seraya.

At their home village, they opened an independent business.

It was justified by the headman of West Seraya, Wayan Patra Suarsa, Monday (Feb 2) at local village.

One of the local residents, Wayan Sumiarta, said that at first a silversmith appeared at Kalanganyar hamlet. After seeing the success to establish such a business, other colleagues then followed.

After that, said Patra, more than ten silversmiths already opened

their independent business. Other than at Kalanganyar, similar business was also established at Selalang hamlet. It could absorb a total of more than 50 laborers. There was one silversmith continuing to evolve as the center, while others did the finishing process for the craft like rings. Marketing of the products were taken out of the village, especially to Celuk, Gianyar. “Understandably there are no tourist areas at Seraya village and neither are many passing tourists.

As a result, the craft products must be marketed outside the region,” said Patra, who just served as the headman for a year.

Patra added that lately local people did not only work as silversmith, but also as the maker of sun snack.

Incidentally the maker of the sun cake was the younger brother-inlaw of Patra, Ketut Putu Megajana.

The cake-making business could absorb 20 workers. “I am grateful that at the village known to be barren village has begun to develop a variety of businesses. We’re not arrogant, the communities at our village are creative enough when given a motivation,” he said.

Marketing of the sun cake had also reached the Buleleng region.

Sometimes, said Patra, his brotherin-law was overwhelmed to meet the existing orders. Even, at his village there had been an oyster mushroom farm. It was something virtually impossible to be done at the barren village and during dry season the temperature was hot

enough. But with the creativity and tenacity, the oyster mushroom could be cultivated at West Seraya.

He added that lately through the village-owned enterprise, his party continued to encourage his residents to open a business. It could be started with a small-scale business. Most importantly, people should be creative and smart to see business opportunity and never easily give up. “I am grateful because lately those businesses can absorb employment and there are no longer unemployed people. As a result, the crime rate virtually reaches zero as all people were busy with their respective creativity. Besides, people rarely have the opportunity to drink alcohol or committed other negative deeds,” he said. (013)

Menjangan Island becomes the authority of the TNBB or Ministry of Forestry. We are based on the Law No.1/2012 on the management of coastal territory and small islands,” he affirmed. (kmb34)

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Proliferation of café kindles the change of Balinese character

NEGARA - Proliferation of café as nightclubs having reached rural areas triggers social problems in the community. When calculated regarding its positive-negative impact, the negative impact is more prominent in the people’s life.

Rarely there is success story because people like to play at café. Even what they obtain is only misery either in the form of material having been drained or the loss of life. In Jembrana, for example, there are many impacts on social facts where people fall in love with cafés. Their sufferings are ranging from the infection of deadly diseases, HIV/AIDS to the draining of possessions for the sake of a café girl. There are

many interesting facts related to the identity of Balinese people left when setting foot at cafés. They will forget the time (feast day and activities) and get drunk due to liquor, drug and exotic waitresses mostly consisting of migrants.

The shift in the amicable Balinese human to become violent and temperamental has been ignited by toxin of the alcoholic drinks.

Even, in a feast day falling on full moon, Bali Post found a group of

teenagers dressed in worship attires (headdress, sarong and white shirt) visited one of the cafés at Delod Berawah at midnight. Although just drinking beer, it was highly deplored because they still put on worship attires. Another fact is the craze for listening to and singing songs of East Java.

The folk songs of East Java becoming the close neighbor to Jembrana are always played at almost all cafés in Jembrana. On

average the fans of the song are teenagers.

The fact that the café waitress vulnerably becomes a disease carrier is not wrong. Of the frequent population administration control made by the Jembrana Municipal Police in 2014, more than two women having profession as café waitress were recorded to have been positive to HIV/AIDS. The results were obtained when the Health Agency officers conducted an intense counseling to café girls and volunteers. The Head of the Jembrana Municipal Police, IGN Rai Budi, said that since taking

office he already found two café girls in Mendoyo subdistrict were ensnared and declared to be HIV positive after taking a VCT test.

Other than at café, there was also woman working as prostitute at Melaya village. Municipal Police took action by deporting them to their region of origin. Together with the Health Agency, his party supervised the three positive women. The government did not have the right to ban them from entering into and exiting from Jembrana, but would still conduct monitoring and counseling through the Health Agency. (olo)

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Development of cafe centralized at Delod Berawah

NEGARA - The Division Head of P2PL, Jembrana Health Agency, I Gusti Bagus Ketut Oka Parwata, recently added that from the operation was known that after performing VCT test his party found some HIV-positive people. The agency obtained the results from counseling and VCT volunteer testing.

More sadly, from the recognition they averagely had sexual intercourse with non-partner although outside working hours.

From the search of Bali Post, within the past 10 years only particular areas became the café development in Jembrana. Delod Berawah, for example, has dozens of cafés in a row along the beach with semi-permanent buildings. At Baluk there are two cafés, while at Yehkuning there were three cafés.

Meanwhile, at Gilimanuk there are four cafés. Indeed, it only provides drinks (beer) and singing plus a little swaying or dancing accompanied by café girl. Nothing is more so that it did not lead to immoral actions beyond it.

But behind it, the circulation and transaction of drug such as ecstasy freely occurred despite it was in relatively small number. Similarly, sexual intercourse by café waitress also easily occurred after working

hours. Through this sex transaction, they are susceptible to transmit diseases ranging from colds to HIV/ AIDS. It should also be understood that the café girls were also workers who need money for their life and family at home. So, no wonder, they sometimes work outside the norms.

They are also looking for livelihood and provision from a masher because they cannot always live from nightlife activities. There are many examples on Balinese man that married to a prostitute.

However, among the married couples, only a few that can last longer. The latest case was experienced by PW, 36, a Balinese man from Tegalcangkring, Mendoyo, who married a café girl M, 48, from Lumajang, East Java. PW knew his wife at one of the cafés at Yehkuning. From his association, PW fell in love with the woman having had three children until sacrificed his possessions in order that he could go to cafe and met the necessities.

PW even did not think if his idol woman M was ten years older.

Misfortune was just felt when his marriage entered the fourth year. How destroyed his heart was!

It was just like being struck by lightning in broad daylight, when he watched a nasty video similar

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Taman Bhagawan Bali hosts world class intimate jazz concert

TANJUNG BENOA - Taman Bhagawan, one of the best outdoor event venues in Bali, is proud to be the host for the spectacular multi culture collaboration of world jazz musicians set for Saturday, 14th February 2015. The jazz concert will present Dwiki Dharmawan, Chad Wackerman, and Jimmy Haslip featuring Tohpati and I Nyoman Windha on Balinese Jegog. The Album titled ‘Love, Live and Passion’ will be launched in this intimate Jazz Concert in Bali, following similar concerts in Jakarta, Bandung and Jogjakarta. This album will be released by MoonJune Records Label in Los Angeles with Dwiki Dharmawan on keyboard, Jimmy Haslip on bass, and Chad Wackerman on drums.

Hundreds of fans of iconic Dwiki of Krakatu Band are expected to descend on Tanjung Benoa Bali on February 14th. “We all love jazz; this is a great location to release our new album,” says Dwiki, “The festivities will kick off on Saturday at Taman Bhagawan Bali from 7pm with launcing of the album. Hope-

fully there’ll be a lot of people there watching.”

The presence of these great international caliber musicians will be an excellent promotion platform for Bali as well.

Taman Bhagawan’s signature food stalls Kaki Lima, will enliven then night with selection of local snacks and drinks.

Taman Bhagawan is ideal for outdoor events with its collection of versatile open-air venues and alfresco dining options, which include several different spaces that collectively accommodate events of up to 2,000 persons. Taman Bhagawan is world-class venue, complete with five-star facilities and ser-

Mudiana

Healthy breakfast not necessarily expensive

The police inspect one of the cafes in Jembrana to his wife making love affair with his neighbor, NP. Funnily, the video was acquired while browsing on the internet accompanied by his wife

who was watching television. Since then, it was revealed the infidelity of his wife, a former café waitress, with his neighbor. He deeply regret-

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ted and mourned his life having been fully devoted to his wife. In fact, it has become a disgrace to him. (olo)

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Choosing the profession as an executive chef does not only make I Made Mudiana good at cooking and creating menus, but also creative in choosing food. The chef known to be firm and disciplined is happy to share his tips and delicious healthy breakfast.

According to Mudiana, a healthy breakfast menu was not necessarily expensive. Definitely, it was preservative-free and tastily consumed. “A breakfast does not have to use rice, meat, vegetables or imported and expensive fruits every morning. Rather, it can be replaced with two simple menus namely boiled bananas and tubers,” he explained.

Boiled bananas, said Mudiana, could be used as a substitute for rice breakfast menu that was useful for satisfying the hunger. “This food does not contain any cholesterol. Besides, these foods contain high enough fiber so they are useful to facilitate the digestive tract. The

preparation is also too easy, namely by boiling the bananas in water containing salt to taste. Boiled bananas can also be mixed with sugar or grated cheese,” said the chef having a hobby to play badminton.

Mudiana suggested that, other than boiled bananas, the typical tubers of Indonesia were also tasty to serve for breakfast menu. They were cassava, potato, taro and yam.

Among the tubers like white yam, red yam, purple yam and honey yam, sweet yam had the most complete nutrients. “Sweet yam is rich in vitamins and beta carotene.

It also contains minerals that are very good in helping the water balance in the body,” he explained.

Mudiana added that other than being simple, the food was also easy to prepare such as by boiling or frying. “It is one of the substitute foods that can be served as a delicious breakfast menu. Moreover, if served with warm tea or milk, it will be able to provide energy for the physical activities during the day,” he added. (ocha)

vices. Ideal for international scale events, among the prestigious past events held at Taman Bhagawan are America’s Next Top Model 2013, Jazz Market by the Sea and concerts such as live performances by Jason Mraz. (r)

Balinese Temple Ceremony Every Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is considered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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edged periodic struggles with substance abuse, and he had entered a substance abuse program shortly before his death. According to the coroner’s report, his wife told an investigator that Williams did not go there because of recent drug or alcohol abuse, but rather to reaffirm the principles of his rehabilitation.

Williams’ trust granted his children his memorabilia and awards in the entertainment industry and some other specific personal items, according to court documents. Susan Williams says that because he wanted her to continue to live at the

Tiburon home, it makes sense that he intended only for his children to have the specific personal items he delineated that were kept at another home he owned in Napa.

“Any other interpretation would lead to Mrs. Williams’ home being stripped while Mrs. Williams still lives there,” her attorneys wrote.

The children dispute that interpretation, saying there were no specific limits on the location of those items. The two sides also disagree over items put in storage, watches Williams owned and his memorabilia. (ap) In this Nov. 13, 2011 file photo, Susan Schneider, from left, Robin Williams, and Zelda Williams arrive at the premiere of “Happy Feet Two” at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, in Los Angeles.

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from the court about the meaning of certain terms in the trust.

“This is not ugly,” he said. “I would not say this is anticipated to be a highly contested proceeding.”

An attorney for the children, Allan Mayer, declined to comment.

Williams died at his Tiburon home in August. The coroner ruled his death a suicide that resulted from asphyxia caused by hanging.

Susan Williams has said the actor and comedian was struggling with depression, anxiety and a recent diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.

Williams had publicly acknowl-

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Foreign tourists visited Bali reached 3.76 million

SAN FRANCISCO — Robin Williams’ children and wife have gone to court in a fight over the late comedian’s estate. In papers filed in December in San Francisco Superior Court, Williams’ wife, Susan, says some of the late actor’s personal items were taken without her permission and asks the court to exclude the contents of the Tiburon home that she shared with Williams from the jewelry, memorabilia and other items Williams said the children should have.

The children, Zachary, Zelda and Cody, counter that Susan Williams is “adding insult to a terrible injury” by trying to change the trust agreement and rob them of the late actor’s clothing and other personal items.

“The Williams’ children are heartbroken that Petitioner, Mr. Williams’ wife of less than three years, has acted against his wishes by challenging the plans he so carefully made for his estate,” attorneys for the children said in court papers.

James Wagstaffe, an attorney for Susan Williams, said Monday his client was only seeking guidance

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DENPASAR - The number of foreign tourists visiting Bali Island reached 3.76 million during the January-December 2014 period, the Central Bureau of Statistics 2014, up 14.89 percent from 3.27 million in the previous year.

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Bobbi Kristina is fighting for her life

NEW YORK — Bobbi Kristina Brown is fighting for her life, according to a statement from the Houston family Monday. Police said the 21-year-old daughter of Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown was taken to a hospital Saturday after she was found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub in a suburban Atlanta townhome.

The statement said that Brown is surrounded by immediate family and that the family was requesting privacy. No more details were provided.

“We are asking you to honor our request for privacy during this difficult time,” the statement read.

“Thank you for your prayers, well wishes, and we greatly appreciate your continued support. “ Whitney Houston was found dead in a hotel bathtub in 2012. (ap)

“Most of the tourists landed in Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, by direct flights from their countries. Only 34,903 tourists came by cruisers,” Head of the Bali Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) Panusunan Siregar said on Monday.

The number surpassed the target set by Bali at 2,9 million foreign tourists in 2014.

Of the ten top tourist sources, nine showed significant increase,

and only Taiwan recorded a drop from 127,443 people in 2013 to 114,504 in 2014.

Australia sent 991,923 tourists to Bali last year, up 20.03 percent from 826,385 in 2013.

He said the Australian tourists constituted 26.33 percent of the total foreign tourists visiting the Island of Gods, followed by China 586,300 tourists, or an increase of 51.29 percent from 387,533 people in 2013.

In the third place is Malaysia with 225,572 tourists last year, or up by 13.23 percent from 199,223 in the previous year; followed by Japan 217,402 tourists, a hike of 4.46 percent from 208,115 people; Singapore 179,719 tourists; South Korea 146,088; France 128,350; Britain 127,040; Taiwan 114,504; and the USA 111,640 tourists last year.

In the meantime, 9.44 million foreign tourists visited Indonesia in

(BPS) reported.

“Cumulatively, the number of foreign tourists that visited the country in 2014 reached 9.44 million, which is an increase of 7.19 percent from the 8.32 million recorded in 2013,” Head of the BPS, Suryamin, told the press in Jakarta, Monday.

In December 2014 alone, some 915.3 thousand foreign tourists visited Indonesia. This was a 19.74 percent rise from that in November, and 6.35 percent year-on-year surge

from the 860.7 thousand tourists in December 2013.

Furthermore, a significant increase of 73.06 percent was recorded in the number of tourist arrivals at Lombok International Airport (BIL), West Nusa Tenggara province.

The rise at Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, was 15.11 percent, followed by Minangkabau International Airport in West Sumatra at 13.73 percent. “The lowest surge was at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, at just 0.26 percent,” Suryamin stated. (ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

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This file photo showed foreign tourists sunbathed at Nusa Dua Beach. The number of foreign tourists visiting Bali Island reached 3.76 million during 2014, up 14.89 percent from 3.27 million in the previous year.